Chapter 4 reviewed procedural steps and clinical pathways. You may wish to review that material to see where reauthorization requests and termination reports fit in those processes.

Stages 7 through 10 of the clinical pathway consider reauthorization, aftercare, closure, and posttermination. The 8th and 9th procedural steps consist of the reauthorization request and the termination report. These are the issues to be discussed in this chapter.