VA Health Care: Management and Oversight of Fee Basis Care Need Improvement

The two main fee basis care delivery methods-preauthorized care and emergency care-are approved using two different processes. Preauthorizing fee basis care involves a multistep process conducted by the VAMC that regularly serves a veteran. The preauthorization process is initiated by a VA provider who submits a request for fee basis care to the VAMC's fee basis care unit, which is an administrative department within each VAMC that processes VA providers' fee basis care requests and verifie...