Defense health care: Improved monitoring could help ensure completion of mandated reforms : report to congressional committees
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- Improved monitoring could help ensure completion of mandated reforms: report to congressional committees
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, June 2023
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Government Regulation Health Care Reform -- legislation & jurisprudence Legislation, Medical United States United States. Department of Defense
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Why GAO did this study. For the past decade, DOD has been taking actions to reform its health system. The military health system is a massive enterprise charged with maintaining a medically ready force and ready medical personnel. To achieve this mission, DOD estimated it will provide care to approximately 9.6 million beneficiaries at a cost of more than $55.8 billion in fiscal year 2023. The NDAA for Fiscal Year 2022 includes a provision for GAO to study DOD’s implementation of statutory requirements for military health system reform. This report examines (1) statutory requirements for reform of the military health system that GAO identified within each NDAA for fiscal years 2012 through 2022, and the extent to which DOD has (2) taken actions to address these requirements for military health system reform and assessed the effectiveness of certain reforms, and (3) monitored actions taken in response to the requirements. GAO analyzed NDAAs and DOD documentation, and interviewed DOD senior officials. What GAO recommends. GAO is making four recommendations, including that DOD finalize implementation plans for the transfers of (1) public health and (2) research and development organizations, and establish a process to monitor actions taken to address statutory requirements for the military health system. DOD concurred with each of GAO’s recommendations.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (iii, 59 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918681586606676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918681586606676