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Military Treatment Facilities: Emergency Department Utilization

HEHS-00-63R Published: Mar 13, 2000. Publicly Released: Mar 13, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on whether military active duty service personnel, retirees, and their dependents not enrolled in the Department of Defense's (DOD) TRICARE program, are obtaining nonemergency medical care through Military Treatment Facilities (MTF) emergency departments, focusing on the: (1) services' efforts to determine requirements for MTF emergency departments; (2) type of care emergency departments are providing; and (3) extent to which emergency department patients were TRICARE enrollees.

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Emergency medical servicesHealth resources utilizationHospital care servicesMilitary hospitalsMilitary personnelVeterans benefitsMilitary health servicesMilitary forcesBeneficiariesMilitary treatment facilities