{"id":10159,"date":"2021-06-02T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10159"},"modified":"2021-06-03T11:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:56:58","slug":"the-covid-19-pandemic-shifted-the-veterans-affairs-system-toward-being-a-payer-and-virtual-care-provider-is-it-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/02\/the-covid-19-pandemic-shifted-the-veterans-affairs-system-toward-being-a-payer-and-virtual-care-provider-is-it-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"The COVID-19 Pandemic Shifted the Veterans Affairs System toward Being a Payer and Virtual Care Provider Is It Sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In-person care at facilities managed by the Veterans Health Administration (VA) declined from 63% of all visits prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to just 33% during the pandemic, according to an analysis of all encounters paid for or provided by the VA between January 2019 and February 2021. However, total visits of all types (in-person and virtual) only declined by 3.5% (from 4.9 to 4.2 million) as VA encounters shifted largely to virtual care. Similarly, the VA shifted to purchasing care from non-VA providers, with community provided visits exceeded pre-pandemic levels by 26% (increase from 2.3 to 2.9 million).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rose et al.\u00a0(June 1, 2021). The COVID-19 Pandemic Shifted the Veterans Affairs System toward Being a Payer and Virtual Care Provider Is It Sustainable. Pre-print downloaded Jun 2 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.31.21258031\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.31.21258031<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] In-person care at facilities managed by the Veterans Health Administration (VA) declined from 63% of all visits prior to the COVID-19 pandemic to just 33% during the pandemic, according to an analysis of all encounters paid for or provided by the VA between January 2019 and February 2021. However, total visits of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/02\/the-covid-19-pandemic-shifted-the-veterans-affairs-system-toward-being-a-payer-and-virtual-care-provider-is-it-sustainable\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-10159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10160,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}