Comparing the Costs of Military Treatment Facilities with Private Sector Care

Abstract

In 2016, the Congress expects to consider proposals for modifying how the Department of Defense provides health-related services to its eligible beneficiaries. It is important to understand the current cost of the military healthcare benefit and its component elements when considering how the benefit can be modernized and made more sustainable. IDA estimated the cost of delivering care in military treatment facilities (MTFs) and compared those costs with their private sector counterparts. This paper compares the actual cost of producing MTF workload with an estimate of what it would have cost if the same level and volume of workload were performed in the private sector. The results show that, with a few exceptions, almost all MTFs have higher costs than their private sector counterparts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1004034

Entities

People

  • Philip M. Lurie

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Health Services
  • Hiv Infections
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • National Security
  • Patient Care
  • Therapy

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Medical or Health Care Field.