| | A bill to be introduced Thursday would force the Department of Veterans Affairs to report disciplinary actions against medical providers to a national data base designed to prevent them from crossing state lines to escape their pasts and keep practicing. Sens. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., seek to require the VA to report discipline within 30 days to state medical boards and bar the agency from purging negative records from clinicians' personnel files as part of severance deals. The bill follows an extensive USA TODAY investigation that revealed the VA has for years concealed poor care and mistakes by its medical workers.
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