Medicare Subvention Demonstration: DoD Costs and Medicare Spending
Abstract
The Balanced Budget Act of 19971 (BBA) authorized the Department of Defense (DOD) to conduct the Medicare subvention demonstration for a 3-year period. Under this demonstration, DOD formed Medicare managed care organizations - collectively called TRICARE Senior Prime - at six sites that provided enrolled older military retirees the full range of Medicare-covered services as well as additional DOD-covered services, notably prescription drugs. The Medicare program was to pay DOD for Medicare-covered care of the enrolled military retirees if DOD continued to spend on all aged military retirees (Senior Prime enrollees and nonenrollees) at least as much as it had historically.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- AD1170650
Entities
People
- Dae Park
- Eric Wedum
- Jessica Farb
- Judy Chesley
- Martha Wood
- Robert Deroy
- Wayne Turowski
- William J. Scanlon
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office