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Impact of TriCare/Managed Care on Mirror Force Readiness.

PB2007107653

Publication Date	2000
Personal Author	Ray, M. A.
Page Count	80
Abstract	United States Air Force mission readiness depends on a healthy Total Force and the response of the USAF Medical Service (Mirror Force). Managed care has become the norm in US health care. Although the transformation to a managed care system was expected to be completed by the year 2000, the system is in a constant state of change and evaluation. Cost management, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other health plans are defined as managed care, an aggressive cost-control effort by health care purchasers and insurers to limit health care spending and services and to advance a market-oriented, profit-driven system. The impact of managed care on mission readiness, retention of active and Reserve components, military medicine, and nursing is and will continue to be profound.
Keywords	TriCare Managed care Military medicine Clinical operations Mission readiness Cost management
Source Agency	TriService Nursing Research Program/Uniform Services Univ. of the Health Sciences
NTIS Subject Category	57E - Clinical Medicine 44N - Health Care Utilization 74 - Military Sciences 70B - Management Practice
Corporate Authors	Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton.; TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200713

Impact of TriCare/Managed Care on Mirror Force Readiness.

Impact of TriCare/Managed Care on Mirror Force Readiness.
PB2007107653

Publication Date	2000
Personal Author	Ray, M. A.
Page Count	80
Abstract	United States Air Force mission readiness depends on a healthy Total Force and the response of the USAF Medical Service (Mirror Force). Managed care has become the norm in US health care. Although the transformation to a managed care system was expected to be completed by the year 2000, the system is in a constant state of change and evaluation. Cost management, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and other health plans are defined as managed care, an aggressive cost-control effort by health care purchasers and insurers to limit health care spending and services and to advance a market-oriented, profit-driven system. The impact of managed care on mission readiness, retention of active and Reserve components, military medicine, and nursing is and will continue to be profound.
Keywords	TriCare Managed care Military medicine Clinical operations Mission readiness Cost management
Source Agency	TriService Nursing Research Program/Uniform Services Univ. of the Health Sciences
NTIS Subject Category	57E - Clinical Medicine 44N - Health Care Utilization 74 - Military Sciences 70B - Management Practice
Corporate Authors	Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton.; TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	200713