| Description |
1 online resource (ii, 42 p.) : ill. |
| Note |
Title from cover screen (viewed on Apr. 12, 2012). |
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"April 2012." |
| Summary |
DOD's health care costs have risen significantly, from $19 billion in fiscal year 2001 to $48.7 billion in its fiscal year 2013 budget request, and are projected to increase to $92 billion by 2030. GAO reviewed DOD's efforts to slow its rising health care costs by changing selected clinical, business, and management practices. Specifically, GAO determined the extent to which DOD has (1) identified initiatives to reduce health care costs and applied results-oriented management practices in developing plans for implementing and monitoring them and (2) implemented its seven medical governance initiatives approved in 2006 and employed key management practices. For this review, GAO analyzed policies, memorandums, directives, and cost documentation, and interviewed officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, from the three services, and at each of the sites where the governance initiatives were under way. GAO recommends that DOD (1) complete and fully implement comprehensive results-oriented plans for each of its medical initiatives; (2) fully implement an overall monitoring process across the portfolio of initiatives and identify accountable officials and their roles and responsibilities; and (3) complete its governance initiatives and employ key management practices to show financial and nonfinancial outcomes and evaluate interim and long-term progress. In written comments on a draft of this report, DOD concurred with each of these three recommendations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
"GAO-12-224." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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System requirements: Adobe Reader. |
| Subject |
United States. Department of Defense -- Rules and practice -- Evaluation.
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical care -- Costs.
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical care -- Management -- Evaluation.
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| Added Title |
Applying key management practices should help achieve efficiencies within the military health system |
| Gpo Item No. |
0546-D (online) |
| Sudoc No. |
GA 1.13:GAO-12-224 |
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