Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
TRICARE Managed Care Support Contracts
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Government Estimates in the Tricare Managed Care Support Contracts
Author: Michael Evi Jonasson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423527503
Category : Government employees' health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
In 1994, the Department of Defense (DoD) began a journey, to merge the Military Health System (MHS) with the concept of the Managed Care Support Contractor (MCSC). The DoD managed health care program, called TRICARE, includes the competitive selection of contractors to financially underwrite the delivery of civilian health care services with a uniform, stabilized benefit structure, triple option health benefit features, and a regionally-based health care management system. The goals of TRICARE are to maintain medical readiness, improve access to care, provide a secure quality health care benefit, provide a choice of health care options, and contain DOD health care costs. The Managed Care Support (MCS) contracts are fixed-price contracts, with risk-sharing features and a bid price adjustment process designed to periodically substitute projected/estimated health care costs with actual health care costs. MCS contracts are 5 1/2 year contracts, with a 6-month phase-in period prior to start-up of delivery of health care services, followed by 5 1-year option periods. This thesis will explore the bid price adjustment process within the MCS contract, and the Government's methodology used to project/estimate health care costs for use by offerors in the bidding process. Selected as an example for discussion is the Regions 3 and 4 MCS contract. This thesis explores whether the Government, in choosing and engaging a methodology for projecting/estimating health care costs, should have instead chosen another methodology or path; i.e., "the road not taken."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423527503
Category : Government employees' health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
In 1994, the Department of Defense (DoD) began a journey, to merge the Military Health System (MHS) with the concept of the Managed Care Support Contractor (MCSC). The DoD managed health care program, called TRICARE, includes the competitive selection of contractors to financially underwrite the delivery of civilian health care services with a uniform, stabilized benefit structure, triple option health benefit features, and a regionally-based health care management system. The goals of TRICARE are to maintain medical readiness, improve access to care, provide a secure quality health care benefit, provide a choice of health care options, and contain DOD health care costs. The Managed Care Support (MCS) contracts are fixed-price contracts, with risk-sharing features and a bid price adjustment process designed to periodically substitute projected/estimated health care costs with actual health care costs. MCS contracts are 5 1/2 year contracts, with a 6-month phase-in period prior to start-up of delivery of health care services, followed by 5 1-year option periods. This thesis will explore the bid price adjustment process within the MCS contract, and the Government's methodology used to project/estimate health care costs for use by offerors in the bidding process. Selected as an example for discussion is the Regions 3 and 4 MCS contract. This thesis explores whether the Government, in choosing and engaging a methodology for projecting/estimating health care costs, should have instead chosen another methodology or path; i.e., "the road not taken."
Substance Use Disorders in the U.S. Armed Forces
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309260558
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Problems stemming from the misuse and abuse of alcohol and other drugs are by no means a new phenomenon, although the face of the issues has changed in recent years. National trends indicate substantial increases in the abuse of prescription medications. These increases are particularly prominent within the military, a population that also continues to experience long-standing issues with alcohol abuse. The problem of substance abuse within the military has come under new scrutiny in the context of the two concurrent wars in which the United States has been engaged during the past decade-in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) and Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn). Increasing rates of alcohol and other drug misuse adversely affect military readiness, family readiness, and safety, thereby posing a significant public health problem for the Department of Defense (DoD). To better understand this problem, DoD requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) assess the adequacy of current protocols in place across DoD and the different branches of the military pertaining to the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). Substance Use Disorders in the U.S. Armed Forces reviews the IOM's task of assessing access to SUD care for service members, members of the National Guard and Reserves, and military dependents, as well as the education and credentialing of SUD care providers, and offers specific recommendations to DoD on where and how improvements in these areas could be made.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309260558
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Problems stemming from the misuse and abuse of alcohol and other drugs are by no means a new phenomenon, although the face of the issues has changed in recent years. National trends indicate substantial increases in the abuse of prescription medications. These increases are particularly prominent within the military, a population that also continues to experience long-standing issues with alcohol abuse. The problem of substance abuse within the military has come under new scrutiny in the context of the two concurrent wars in which the United States has been engaged during the past decade-in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) and Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn). Increasing rates of alcohol and other drug misuse adversely affect military readiness, family readiness, and safety, thereby posing a significant public health problem for the Department of Defense (DoD). To better understand this problem, DoD requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) assess the adequacy of current protocols in place across DoD and the different branches of the military pertaining to the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). Substance Use Disorders in the U.S. Armed Forces reviews the IOM's task of assessing access to SUD care for service members, members of the National Guard and Reserves, and military dependents, as well as the education and credentialing of SUD care providers, and offers specific recommendations to DoD on where and how improvements in these areas could be made.
Defense Health Care
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Defense Health Care
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788120476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788120476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1997: Commanders in Chief: Pacific Command ... European Command; testimony of Members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1997: Military personnel programs, National Guard and Reserve programs, medical programs, readiness of United States forces
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1997
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on National Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
Book Description