| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 105 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series |
Project Air Force |
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Project Air Force report.
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| Note |
"Prepared for the United States Air Force." |
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"TR-859-AF"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-105). |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- Background -- The Challenge to the Military Health System -- Purpose -- Methodology -- Organization of This Report -- CHAPTER TWO Overview of the Air Force Medical Service -- Mission -- Recent History -- Overview of the DoD Military Health System -- Key Differences Among the Services Health Systems -- Size and Composition -- Command Structure -- Relationships Between the Air Force Medical Service and Air Force Major Commands -- Medical Facilities -- Summary -- CHAPTER THREE Air Force Medical Service Funding -- Budget Overview -- Emphasis on Military Treatment Facility Efficiency -- Prospective Payment System -- Efficiency Wedge -- Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund Earnings -- Local Military Treatment Facility Reimbursements -- Military Treatment Facility Financial Information -- Comparing the Air Force Medical Service to the Army and Navy Medical Departments -- Methodology of the Medical Department Comparisons -- Comparison of Medical Departments Expenses and Earnings -- Prescription Costs -- Comparing MTF Size and Earnings Share Across Services -- Stepped-Down MEPRS A and B Expenses Versus Earnings -- Future Military Health System Funding Concerns -- Summary -- CHAPTER FOUR Measuring Military Medical Service Costs and Workloads -- Introduction -- Reporting and Measuring Resources: Labor and Labor Costs -- Limitations in Reporting Manpower -- Reporting and Measuring Workload -- Limitations on Workload Reporting -- Summary of Benefits -- How Do System Inaccuracies Affect Performance Measures and Funding? -- Prospective Payment System -- Primary Care Productivity -- Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund -- Summary -- CHAPTER FIVE Why Has the Air Force Medical Services Workload Decreased? -- Work Accomplished, FYs 20008211;2007 -- Effects of Readiness and Deployments on Workload Production -- Decline in the Number and Availability of Air Force Medical Service Surgeons -- Effects of Converting Inpatient Facilities to Stand-Alone Clinics -- Effects of TRICARE for Life -- Keesler AFB Hospital and Hurricane Katrina -- Replacements for Deployed Medical Personnel -- Summary -- CHAPTER SIX Options Available for Recapturing and Expanding Workloads -- Maintaining Clinical Currency of Providers -- Option 1: Expand Opportunities at Existing Air Force Medical Service Facilities -- Option 2: Assign Air Force Providers to Shared or Joint Hospitals -- Option 3: Increase Cooperation with Nonmilitary Hospitals -- Option 4: Increase Reliance on the Air National Guard and Reserves During Wartime -- Summary -- CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusions -- APPENDIXES -- A. Medical Workload by Service Military Treatment Facility -- B. Readiness Full-Time Equivalents by Service -- C. Prospective Payment System -- D. Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund -- E. Consolidation of Wilford Hall Medical Center and Brooke Army Medical Center -- F. Efficiency-Wedge Reductions -- G. Support to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center -- Bibliography -- Back Cover. |
| Summary |
To transition rapidly to wartime service, Air Force Medical Service critical-care providers need suitable peacetime training opportunities, and this work must be properly attributed to AFMS so that it receives proper credit in budget distributions. |
| Subject |
United States. Air Force Medical Service -- Evaluation.
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United States. Air Force Medical Service -- Reorganization.
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United States. Air Force -- Medical care.
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United States. Air Force -- Operational readiness.
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United States. Air Force. (OCoLC)fst00538280
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United States. Air Force Medical Service. (OCoLC)fst00552491
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- General.
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Armed Forces -- Evaluation. (OCoLC)fst00814603
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Armed Forces -- Medical care.
(OCoLC)fst01351803
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Armed Forces -- Operational readiness.
(OCoLC)fst01351844
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Armed Forces -- Reorganization.
(OCoLC)fst01351884
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Graser, John C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Economics of Air Force Medical Service readiness. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2010 9780833050229 (DLC) 2010047950 (OCoLC)682903847 |
| ISBN |
9780833051875 (electronic bk.) |
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0833051873 (electronic bk.) |
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