VA Health Care: Budget Formulation and Reporting on Budget Execution Need Improvement

Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates it will serve 5.4 million patients in fiscal year 2006. Medical services for these patients are funded with appropriations, after consideration by Congress of the Presidents budget request. VA formulates the medical programs portion of that request. VA is also responsible for budget execution using appropriations and monitoring their use for providing care. For fiscal years 2005 and 2006, the President requested additional funding for VA medical programs, beyond what had been originally requested. GAO was asked to examine for fiscal years 2005 and 2006 (1) how the Presidents budget requests for VA medical programs were formulated, (2) how VA monitored and reported to Congress on its budget execution, and (3) which key factors in the budget formulation process contributed to requests for additional funding. Todo this, GAO analyzed budget documents and interviewed VA and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) officials.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
AD1179927

Entities

People

  • Dean Koulouris
  • Denise Fantone
  • Greg Whitney
  • James Musselwhite
  • Jennie Apter
  • Laurie E. Ekstrand
  • Michael Kendix
  • Thomas Walke
  • Tiffany Tanner

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Federal Budgets
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Care Management
  • Health Services
  • Iraqi-War
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Reliability
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Veterans Health

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.