Veteransäó» Health Care: Improvements Needed to Ensure That Budget Estimates Are Reliable and That Spending for Facility Maintenance Is Consistent with Priorities

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By Randall B. Williamson (au)
Year: 2013
Pages: 32
Binding Paperback
ISBN 978-1-4578-4453-9

Product Code: 1457844532

Description

The Veteranäó»s Admin. (VA) operates about 1,000 medical facilities -- such as hospitals and outpatient clinics -- that provide services to more than 6 million patients annually. The operation and maintenance of its facilities, including non-recurring maintenance (NRM), is funded from VAäó»s Medical Facilities appropriations account, one of three accounts through which Congress provides resources for VA health care services. In prior work, GAO found that VAäó»s spending on NRM has consistently exceeded its estimates. GAO recommended that VA ensure that its NRM estimates fully account for this long-standing pattern, and VA agreed to implement this recommendation. This report examines, for FY 2006 through 2012, (1) what accounted for the pattern of NRM spending exceeding VAäó»s budget estimates; (2) VAäó»s allocation of resources for NRM to its health care networks; and (3) VAäó»s process for prioritizing NRM spending and the extent to which NRM spending was consistent with these priorities. Figures. This is a print on demand report.

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