Study on recovery of revenue from private health insurers

(a) In general The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall conduct a study assessing the feasibility and advisability of maximizing opportunities to bill private health insurers of veterans for recoverable claims. (b) Elements In conducting the study required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall— (1) consider aligning and prioritizing the processing of potentially recoverable claims to filing deadlines for private health insurers; (2) consider how information systems controls can be strengthened to ensure complete and accurate claims information is transferred between applicable current and future payment systems, the workflow tool of the Consolidated Patient Account Centers, and patient treatment files in VistA; and (3) determine if staffing resources and workload are sufficiently aligned to process the anticipated volume of claims billed to private health insurers of veterans and outline changes to such resources and workload that might be needed. (c) Report Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on the study conducted under subsection (a).