Senate sends VA Choice reforms to Trump

Modern Healthcare: The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to streamline the VA's community care programs, mandate prompt payment for private providers and demand higher care standards from VA clinics, sending the reforms to President Donald Trump's desk.

The legislation package, which both Democrats and Republicans backed, took months of hard brokering, and Trump's signature will start the ball rolling on regulations. It passed with five Democratic and GOP senators opposed. The first set of regulations will focus on a key demand from the Trump administration: imposing designated access standards on VA clinics for veteran treatment.

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