| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
Veterans Health Administration (VHA) created over 2.5 million
Community Care Consults means that VA needs a tracking mechanism to
identify these consults. Due to the urgent necessity to track care in the
community consults, this patch adds a new stop code 669, COMMUNITY CARE
CONSULT, to the CLINIC STOP (#40.7) file as requested by the Office of
Finance, Managerial Cost Accounting Office (MCAO).
authorizations for Veterans to receive care in the community in fiscal
year 2015 - an 8.6% increase in authorizations when compared to fiscal
year 2014.
The Access and Clinic Administration Program (ACAP) requested that the
Stop Code Council establish a new Stop Code to track Community Care
Consults. Tracking Community Care Consults is a high priority of the
Secretary of the VA and Congress. The enormous volume and importance of
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