The REAL #VAScandal: Failure To Refer Veterans to NON-VA Facility For Care

The REAL #VAScandal: Failure To Refer Veterans to NON-VA Facility For Care

 The VA is allowed by law to authorize Non-VA Facility Care.

Title 38 of the United States Code (USC) §1703 establishes clinical access

criteria and individual eligibility criteria for non-emergency fee care. VHA

must ensure that both criteria are met before authorizing inpatient care. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/38/1703

Clinical Access Criteria—The statute authorizes the use of fee care only if

VHA: (1) does not have the clinical capability, (2) does not have capacity, or

(3) facilities are geographically inaccessible for the veteran. The VA even has a Website about Non-VA Care
http://www.nonvacare.va.gov/