Each month, the VA Office of Inspector General publishes highlights of our investigative work, congressional testimony, and oversight reports. In March 2025, the VA OIG published 17 reports that included 101 recommendations. Report topics varied from a review of VHA and VBA fiscal year 2024 supplemental funding requests and mental healthcare services at a Massachusetts’ VA medical center to a review of the veteran self-scheduling process for community care and supply and equipment management deficiencies at a Texas VA medical center.

VA OIG investigations led to the sentencing of a pharmacy operator who conspired with various doctors to charge government agencies for medically unnecessary compound prescriptions, pain creams, scar gels, and multivitamins primarily to patients covered under the Office of Workers’ Compensation Program. Elsewhere, a government subcontractor was sentenced to 12 months’ probation and ordered to pay restitution of more than $493,000 after previously pleading guilty to bank fraud. The company fraudulently obtained a Small Business Administration-backed Paycheck Protection Program loan. The company’s owner also agreed to pay more than $1.1 million as part of a civil settlement to resolve his own civil liability. 

This latest podcast episode of Veteran Oversight Now highlights the VA OIG’s oversight work from March 2025, including four healthcare facility inspections reports on facilities in Massachusetts, Georgia, Virginia, and Washington, DC. 

Related Reports:

•  The Causes and Conditions That Led to a $12 Billion Supplemental Funding Request
•  Review of VA’s $2.9 Billion Supplemental Funds Request for FY 2024 to Support Veterans’ Benefits Payments
•  Inadequate Governance Structure and Identification of Chief Mental Health Officers’ Responsibilities