Defense Health Care: DOD's Managed Care Program Continues to Face
Challenges (Testimony, 03/28/95, GAO/T-HEHS-95-117).
The Defense Department's (DOD) military health care system provides
medical services and support both in peacetime and in war to members of
the armed forces and their families, as well as to retirees and
survivors. Post-Cold War planning scenarios, efforts to reduce the
overall size of the military, federal budget cuts, and base closures and
realignments have focused attention on how large DOD's health care
system is and what its makeup is, how it operates, whom it serves, and
whether its missions can be carried out in a more cost-effective way.
This report describes the Military Health Services System, past problems
faced by DOD as it ran the system and efforts to solve those problems,
and the management challenges now confronting DOD.
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REPORTNUM: T-HEHS-95-117
TITLE: Defense Health Care: DOD's Managed Care Program Continues
to Face Challenges
DATE: 03/28/95
SUBJECT: Health care cost control
Health care programs
Defense cost control
Health maintenance organizations
Cost effectiveness analysis
Military personnel
Health resources utilization
Program evaluation
Medical information systems
IDENTIFIER: Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed
Services
CHAMPUS
DOD TRICARE Extra Program
DOD TRICARE Prime Program
DOD TRICARE Program
DOD Composite Health Care System
CHCS
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