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  title info:
    title: Health care spending and efficiency in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  title info:
    title: Health care spending and efficiency in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
  name:
    name part: Auerbach, David I.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Weeks, William B.
  name:
    name part: Brantley, Ian.
  name:
    name part: RAND Health
  name:
    name part: Rand Corporation
  name:
    name part: Robert R. McCormick Foundation
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (14 pages) : color illustrations
  abstract: In its 2013 budget request, the Obama administration sought $140 billion for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 54 percent of which would provide mandatory benefits, such as direct compensation and pensions, and 40 percent of which is discretionary spending, earmarked for medical benefits under the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Unlike Medicare, which provides financing for care when its beneficiaries use providers throughout the U.S. health care system, the VHA is a government-run, parallel system that is primarily intended for care provision of veterans. The VHA hires its own doctors and has its own hospital network infrastructure. Although the VHA provides quality services to veterans, it does not preclude veterans from utilizing other forms of care outside of the VHA network--in fact, the majority of veterans' care is received external to the VHA because of location and other system limitations. Veterans typically use other private and public health insurance coverage (for example, Medicare, Medicaid) for external care, and many use both systems in a given year (dual use). Overlapping system use creates the potential for duplicative, uncoordinated, and inefficient use. The authors find some suggestive evidence of such inefficient use, particularly in the area of inpatient care. Coordination management and quality of care received by veterans across both VHA and private sector systems can be optimized (for example, in the area of mental illness, which benefits from an integrated approach across multiple providers and sectors), capitalizing on the best that each system has to offer, without increasing costs.
  note: David I. Auerbach, William B. Weeks, and Ian Brantley.
  note: Caption title.
  note: "RAND Corporation."
  note: "The research was conducted within RAND Health"--Back cover.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 13-14).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Veterans Health Administration
    topic: Appropriations and expenditures
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Veterans Health Administration.
  subject:
    topic: Veterans
    topic: Medical care
    geographic: United States
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Military
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Expenditures, Public
  subject:
    topic: Veterans
    topic: Medical care
    topic: Management
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: UB369
  classification: 362.86/8
  identifier: 9780833083401
  identifier: 0833083406
  identifier: 9780833080295
  identifier: 0833080296
  identifier: 22573/ctt4cxxf1 JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: COO
    record creation date: 040607
    record change date: 20260728172534.9
    record identifier: in00003909530
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng