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Accession Number:
ADA278947
Title:
The Fort Bragg Mental Health Demonstration Project
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. Jul 1991-Jul 1992
Corporate Author:
WOMACK ARMY MEDICAL CENTER FORT BRAGG NC
Report Date:
1992-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
202.0
Abstract:
This paper analyzes the importance of an effective Contracting Offices Representative COR surveillance plan for managing a coordinated care program. The surveillance plan used as example is the plan for the Fort Bragg Mental Health Demonstration Project. The purpose of the demonstration project is to improve the quality of mental health care for children of military families for less cost than care from the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniform Services CHAMPUS. While the formal surveillance program did not begin until after the contract entered its second year of operation, once the COR began using the surveillance plan positive results occurred. The major accomplishments of the surveillance program were ,identifying problems in the quality of patient care and questions about the cost effectiveness of the project. The contractor and the independent evaluation team dispute the findings of the COR. This disagreement highlights the criticality of having indisputable standards upon which the surveillance plan is based. The key to a successful coordinated care contract is to have a well thought out and aggressively executed surveillance plan. Rumbaugh Mental Health Demonstration Project, Contract management, Contract surveillance, Contracting, Managed care, Coordinated care, Fort Bragg Mental Health Demonstration Project.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
