Download or read book Defense health Care DOD Needs to Address the Expected Benefits Costs and Risks for Its newly Approved Medical Command Structure written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defense Health Care: DOD Needs to Address the Expected Benefits, Costs, and Risks for Its Newly Approved Medical Command Structure
Download or read book Defense Health Care DOD Needs to Address the Expected Benefits Costs and Risks for Its Newly Approved Medical Command Structure written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why GAO Did This Study: The Department of Defense (DOD) operates one of the largest and most complex health systems in the nation and has a dual health care mission -- readiness and benefits. The readiness mission provides medical services and support to the armed forces during military operations. The benefits mission provides health care to over 9 million eligible beneficiaries, including active duty personnel, retirees, and dependents worldwide. Past GAO and other reports have recommended changes to the military health system (MHS) structure. GAO was asked to (1) describe the options for structuring a unified medical command recommended in recent studies by DOD and other organizations and (2) assess the extent to which DOD has identified the potential impact these options would have on the current MHS. GAO analyzed studies and reports prepared by DOD's Joint/Unified Medical Command Working Group, the Defense Business Board, and the Center for Naval Analyses, and interviewed department officials. What GAO Recommends: GAO is recommending that DOD address the expected benefits, costs, and risks for implementing the fourth option and provide Congress the results of its assessment. In commenting on a draft of this report, DOD concurred with GAO's recommendations.
Download or read book Defense health care written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by David P. Baine and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, the cost of the Department of Defense's (DOD) Military Health System (MHS) has grown substantially and is projected to reach nearly $95 billion by 2030. As health care costs consume an increasingly large portion of the defense budget, current DOD leadership and Congress have recognized the need to better control these costs. Section 716 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 required DOD to submit a report analyzing potential MHS governance options under consideration, and also an analysis of these options. In response, this report determined the extent to which DOD's assessment provides complete information on cost implications and the strengths and weaknesses of potential MHS governance options. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Military Medical Care Questions and Answers written by Dan J. Jansen and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Recent Developments; Background; Subjects: Purpose of DoD¿s Military Health System (MHS); Structure of the MHS; Unified Medical Budget; Medicare Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund; Cost of Military Health Care to Beneficiaries; Changes in MHS in Recent Years; Eligibility to Receive Care; Assignment of Priorities for Care in Military Medical Facilities; Relationship of DoD Health Care to Medicare; Military Personnel and Free Medical Care for Life; Payment of Private Health Care Providers; Effect of Base Realignment and Closure on Military Medical Care; Pharmacy Benefit; Medical Benefits Available to Reservists; Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program; Tricare and Abortion; and Use of Animals in Medical Res. or Training.
Download or read book Defense Health Agency written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense Department's (DOD) health care system, which costs $15 billion annually, is undergoing sweeping reform. Through TRICARE, its new managed health care program, DOD is trying to improve access to care among its 8.3 million beneficiaries while containing costs. How well DOD implements and operates TRICARE may define and shape military medicine for years to come. Because of TRICARE's complexity, scale, and impact on beneficiaries, GAO reviewed the program, focusing on (1) whether DOD's experiences with early implementation yielded the expected results, (2) how early outcomes may affect costs, and (3) whether DOD has defined and is capturing data needed to manage and assess TRICARE's performance. GAO concludes that despite initial confusion among beneficiaries arising from marketing and education problems, as well as problems with the compatibility of computer systems, early implementation of TRICARE is progressing consistent with congressional and DOD goals. However, the success of DOD's efforts to implement resource-sharing agreements and utilization management is critical to containing health care costs. DOD also needs to gather enrollment and performance data so that it and Congress can assess TRICARE's success in the future.
Download or read book Defense Infrastructure written by Brian Lepore and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy¿s current hospital on Guam does not meet modern facility standards. Moreover, the military population on Guam will grow from 15,000 to over 39,000 due to the move of Marine Corps units from Okinawa, Japan to Guam. The Navy plans to construct a new hospital and two outpatient clinics. This report: (1) describes the Navy¿s plans for developing its military treatment facility solution to meet the expected increases in the military population on Guam; and (2) examines the extent to which the Navy is assured that its proposed military treatment facility solution on Guam will sufficiently meet the requirements for the expected increase in military population. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Military Personnel written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Military medical personnel, who are essential to maintaining one of the largest and most complex health systems in the nation, are in great demand due to the need to treat injured or ill servicemembers, and advances in technology that require specialized personnel. To determine how well the Department of Defense and the services are developing their medical and dental personnel requirements, this report evaluated: (1) the extent to which the services have incorporated cross-service collaboration in their medical personnel requirement processes; and (2) the service-specific processes for determining their requirements for military and civilian medical personnel. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs Save Tax Dollars and Enhance Revenue written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " DOD's health care costs have risen significantly, from $19 billion in fiscal year 2001 to $48.7 billion in its fiscal year 2013 budget request, and are projected to increase to $92 billion by 2030. GAO reviewed DOD's efforts to slow its rising health care costs by changing selected clinical, business, and management practices. Specifically, GAO determined the extent to which DOD has (1) identified initiatives to reduce health care costs and applied results-oriented management practices in developing plans for implementing and monitoring them and (2) implemented its seven medical governance initiatives approved in 2006 and employed key management practices. For this review, GAO analyzed policies, memorandums, directives, and cost documentation, and interviewed officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, from the three services, and at each of the sites where the governance initiatives were under way. "
Download or read book Warfighter Support written by William Solis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have faced significant risks of mission failure and loss of life due to rapidly changing enemy threats. In response, DoD established urgent operational needs processes to rapidly develop, modify, and field new capabilities, such as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tech'y., and counterimprovised explosive devices systems. This review determined: (1) what DoD entities exist for responding to urgent operational needs, and the extent to which there is fragmentation, overlap, or duplication; (2) the extent to which DoD has a comprehensive approach for managing and overseeing its urgent needs activities; and (3) has DoD evaluated the potential for consolidations. Illus. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Defense Health Care written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DoD's health care costs have risen significantly, from $19 billion in FY 2001 to $48.7 billion in its FY 2013 budget request, and are projected to increase to $92 billion by 2030. This report reviewed DoD's efforts to slow its rising health care costs by changing selected clinical, business, and management practices. Specifically, the report determined the extent to which DoD has: (1) identified initiatives to reduce health care costs and applied results-oriented management practices in developing plans for implementing and monitoring them; and (2) implemented its seven medical governance initiatives approved in 2006 and employed key management practices. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.
Download or read book Defense Health Care Reform written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help address DOD's escalating health care costs, in 2013 DOD established the DHA to, among other things, combine common medical services such as medical education and training. DOD trains its servicemembers for a wide variety of medical positions, such as physicians, nurses, therapists, and pharmacists. DHA's Education and Training Directorate is to oversee many aspects of DOD's medical education and training and is now expected to begin operations in August 2014. GAO was mandated to review DOD's efforts to consolidate medical education and training. GAO examined the extent to which DOD has (1) conducted analysis to reform medical education and training to achieve cost savings and (2) determined whether the consolidation of training at METC has resulted in cost savings and designed processes to assess its effectiveness. GAO compared DHA implementation plans and METC budget information from fiscal years 2010 through 2012 with best practices and interviewed officials from the DHA, METC, and military services' Surgeons General offices. GAO recommends that DOD conduct a fully developed business case analysis for the Education and Training Directorate and develop baseline cost information as part of its metrics to assess cost savings for future consolidation efforts.
Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
