Report: VA exams improve

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Veterans Affairs Department doesn't consider some necessary medical factors in about one in five of its most common types of exams, congressional investigators said in a report released Friday.
Still, the department has improved considerably since 2002, when 61 percent of its reports from joint and spine impairment exams were insufficient for regional offices to judge veterans' benefit eligibility. Now 22 percent of the reports are inadequate for case reviews, concluded an investigation by the Government Accountability Office.