Hallmark, which VA hospitals have a 75 percent timely filing rate?
Mr. HALLMARK. I do not have that data immediately with me. We post the actual timeliness rates for each hospital on our Internet Web site hopefully as spur for a little competition. The hospitals I was speaking of that are doing well are in the, I believe, 50 to 60 range. I do not know whether there are any at the 75 percent range, but it is over a wide there is a wide variance. Mr. EVERETT. Which federal agencies also have a 75 percent timely Mr. HALLMARK. Only one, TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority. They are a very small organization. They do not have anywhere near the size of a management problem that most of the agencies like VA do. Mr. EVERETT. VA is developing procedures for a one time review of its open cases. The Labor Department is also reviewing cases 5 years or older. The VA and DOL, are you duplicating work? And are you talking past each other on this, or are you trying to use a common data bank that you can Mr. HALLMARK. Well, right, I understand the question. As I said in m
