DOD (Department of Defense) Health Care: Implications of Outpatient User's Fee for Nonactive Duty Beneficiaries

摘要

The authors have analyzed the implications of imposing a user's fee on outpatient visits to Department of Defense (DOD) medical treatment facilities by nonactive duty beneficiaries. Specifically, they were asked to develop information on the revenue that could be generated from a user's fee, the extent to which beneficiaries may be unnecessarily using outpatient services at military health care facilities, the user's fee charge necessary to make the cost per outpatient visit at DOD facilities equitable with the average charges paid by Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) beneficiaries, and other issues that may affect a decision to impose such a fee.