Veterans Choice

The federal government’s big, new effort to allow veterans to use their VA health benefits to pay for healthcare from private doctors, clinics and…

In one week Veterans are supposed to get improved access to healthcare in the private sector via the Mission Act, which Montana Senator Jon Tester wrote.…

Montana Veterans are being invited to meetings to learn more about a new health care benefit this week and next.The VA is hosting afternoon sessions on…

Sen. Jon Tester said he’s worried that the Veterans Health Administration is straying from the direction Congress gave it when it passed a bill six months…

A bill to reform the troubled Veterans Choice health care program took a big step forward Wednesday.Senator Jon Tester says it won bi-partisan support in…

Inside American Legion Post #2 in Helena Monday night, more than 40 veterans took turns sharing stories of using the Veteran Affairs healthcare system,…

The Veterans health system in Montana is preparing to roll out a new effort aimed at fixing problems with the troubled “Veterans Choice” program.Choice,…

President Trump signed a bill today to temporarily extend a troubled program designed to allow veterans to get medical care in the private sector.During…

The Veterans Choice program was supposed to make it quicker and easier for vets to see a doctor by paying for private-sector care. But it's ended up being slower and more complicated.

Congress on Wednesday is set to extend the troubled VA "Veterans' Choice" program that was intended to fix the long wait times that embarrassed VA officials under then-Secretary Eric Shinseki.