The President is proposing a total of $220 billion in the FY 2020 budget request for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) https://www.va.gov/budget/products.asp The FY 2020 budget request includes $97 billion in discretionary funding.
Some of the proposed budget request highlights;
- MISSION Act would receive $8.9 billion to provide greater choice on where veterans receive their care, maintain care for current Choice Program users, provide a new urgent care benefit, and expand the Caregivers program
- Electronic Health Record Modernization would receive $1.6 billion to create and implement a single longitudinal EHR for the military service members and ensure interoperability with the Department of Defense
- Transforming business systems would include $184.9 million for the continued deployment of a modern integrated financial and acquisition management system and $36.7 million to provide Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support
- To help prevent veteran suicide $9.4 billion would be provided for mental health services which would include $222 million for suicide-prevention outreach
- Women’s Health would receive $547 million for gender-specific women’s healthcare with the goal to develop designated Women’s health primary care providers at every site where women access VA care
- Capital investment would receive $1.6 billion for major and minor construction including $410 million to construct a new hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, and $150 million for the Manhattan New York Medical Center