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Congress·Passed House·6 months ago

VA to add regional breast and gynecologic cancer coordinators for women veterans using community care

Also known as: Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act

Legislative Progress

✓ Filed
✓ Review
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Impacts

Mixed Impacts(1)
Federal Employee
Neutral
Positive Impacts(3)
Military Veteran
Helps
Chronic Illness
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Disability Benefits
Helps

Key Points

  • The VA must hire or name a breast and gynecologic cancer care coordinator in each VA region within 1 year to help manage women veterans’ cancer care.
  • These coordinators focus on veterans getting breast or gynecologic cancer care outside VA facilities through approved community providers, so care doesn’t fall through the cracks.
  • Coordinators must connect VA doctors and community providers, regularly check in with each veteran, and track services and health outcomes like remission and cancer spread.
  • They must also give practical guidance, like where to go for emergency care and the suggestion to notify VA within 72 hours after emergency care at a non-VA facility, plus share mental health resources.
  • Within 3 years, VA must report to Congress comparing outcomes and timeliness for VA care versus community care, and recommend improvements; the bill also extends a VA pension payment limit date to Sept. 30, 2032.
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Milestones

4 milestones15 actions
Sep 16, 2025Senate

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Sep 15, 2025House

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Sep 15, 2025House

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4282)

Sep 15, 2025

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4282-4283: 1)

Sep 15, 2025House

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1860.

What Happens Next

Projected impacts based on AI analysis

Within 1 year after the bill is enacted

VA hires or designates a Regional Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Care Coordinator in each VISN

Eligible veterans using non-VA cancer care can start getting a single point of contact to help coordinate appointments, records, and follow-ups between VA and outside cancer doctors.

After coordinators are hired/designated

Coordinators begin regular check-ins and document cancer care coordination in VA electronic health records

Veterans should see fewer gaps in communication (for example, test results and treatment updates getting to the right place), and clearer guidance on emergency care and mental health follow-up.

Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

Women Veterans Cancer Care Coordination Act

Bill NumberHR 1860
Congress119th Congress
ChamberHouse of Representatives
Latest ActionReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Sponsor

Cosponsors

(9)
D: 9

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