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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