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VA awarded Optum Serve the national community care dental network on September 30, 2026: a 10-year single-award IDIQ worth up to $30B, one network for 9.1 million enrolled Veterans, general and specialty care plus pharmacy support, fully implemented within a year of award.
The $700B-ceiling medical IDIQ remains unawarded. An industry contact reported award notification letters in late September; nothing on SAM.gov, VA News or trade press confirmed that as of October 5. Value-based payment models and utilization management still enter with the new contract.
The President signed H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027 (P.L. 119-103), funding every agency at FY2026 levels from October 1 through December 11, 2026. The House vote was 370-48, the Senate 90-6. Standard CR terms: no new starts and no production-rate increases above FY2026.
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Karen Brazell, DSL, PMP Senior VA Innovation LeaderThis week's analysis.
The Day a Doctor Said Yes
Twenty-four veterans at the Martinsburg VA Medical Center died in 2022 and 2023 with a community care consult still unscheduled, and the chief of community care emailed their names to her team. This issue follows one referral from that hospital through the seven steps it travels between VA and the private doctor at the other end, finds the one date VA cannot produce, explains why six scheduling fixes since 2000 each repaired a single step, and sets out four things, each with an owner, that would give the trip a clock.
Count the Doors
Part 4 of a series on DHA's FY27 campaign plan, one line of effort at a time. It is two in the morning at Eglin Air Force Base and a child has a fever. The parent has at least six ways into military medicine and no single place to start. DHA's FY27 campaign plan promises 90 percent patient satisfaction by 2028 and dates fourteen tasks that add or rebuild a way in. This issue follows that one call through the doors, the rule the plan writes for sending patients out to the civilian network, the single door DHA is designing outside the plan, and the five dated steps that would get from six doors to one with what DHA already owns.
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