South Texas Veterans Health Care System Mobile Health Clinic: Business Case Analysis

摘要

This business case examines the likely costs and benefits of establishing a mobile primary care clinic to provide care to geographically underserved veterans in South Texas. The recommendation is to purchase a mobile health unit with no ancillary services with a clinical staffing of one physician's assistant (PA) and one nurse practitioner (NP). A total of four options were evaluated: (1) no ancillary with physician/registered nurse (RN) staffing, (2) no ancillary with PA/NP staffing, (3) radiology suite with physician/RN staffing, or (4) radiology suite with PA/NP staffing. Option 1 returned an expected net present value (NPV) of negative S2.644.6K with a ROl of negative 79.8%. Option 2 returned an expected NPV of negative $2,600.2K with a ROI of negative 79.5%. Option 3 returned an expected NPV of negative $2, 731.2K with a ROI of negative 67.7% and option 4 returned an expected NPV of negative $2,686.8K. with a ROI of negative 67.3%.