How Timely Is The Care Inside The VA System Right Now?
Veterans currently have over 10.9 MILLION appointments scheduled.
91.3% (10,003,515) are scheduled for care within 30 days of the requested date.
8.7% (953,636) are scheduled for care after 30 days of the requested date.
< 1% of total scheduled are considered time sensitive *.
Data last updated Apr 12 2019 5:17PM * How is this figure calculated?
This figure is drawn from extensive chart reviews of 958,2703 appointments. A sample of patients waiting greater than 30 days, who were felt to be time sensitive appointments based on clinical need (because a requested return date was 7 days or less from the prior appointment). After the review, only 5.7% of those patients were found to have a time sensitive, or urgent, clinical need based on the chart reviews. This number represents considerably less than 1% of the total number of appointments scheduled.