Defense Health Care: Despite TRICARE Procurement Improvements, Problems Remain.

Abstract

As federal and state medical programs move to managed care, competitively bid contracting with private health care companies is increasingly being used. Under the Medicaid program, states are using such contracts as part of their overall strategy to control rapidly escalating medical costs. In the federal sector, the Department of Defense (DOD) has been a leader in using these contracts. As part of its implementation of a nationwide managed health care program for military beneficiaries called TRICARE, DOD has begun to award large, complex, competitively bid contracts to supplement and support the health care provided in military medical facilities. These 5-year contracts are estimated to cost a total of about $17 billion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 03, 1995
Accession Number
ADA298597

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • Public Health
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Industrial Economics
  • Rehabilitation and Prosthetic Care for Military Service Members and Veterans with Limb Loss or Disability.