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Indian Health Service : increased oversight needed to ensure accuracy of data used for estimating contract health service need : report to congressional requesters.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Indian Health Service--Management.
- United States.
- United States Indian Health Service.
- United States. Indian Health Service.
- Health services accessibility--United States.
- Health services accessibility.
- Indians of North America--Medical care--Economic aspects--United States.
- Indians of North America.
- Federal aid to community health services--United States.
- Federal aid to community health services.
- Public contracts--United States--Management.
- Public contracts.
- Health Services Accessibility--organization & administration.
- Health Services Accessibility--economics.
- Indians, North American.
- Indians of North America--Medical care--Economic aspects.
- Management.
- Public contracts--Management.
- Medical Subjects:
- United States Indian Health Service.
- Health Services Accessibility--organization & administration.
- Health Services Accessibility--economics.
- Indians, North American.
- United States.
- Genre:
- legislative records.
- Legislative materials
- Legislative materials.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ii, 52 pages) : illustrations, map
- Other Title:
- Increased oversight needed to ensure accuracy of data used for estimating contract health service need
- IHS contract health services
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2011]
- Summary:
- The Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provides health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives. When care at an IHS-funded facility is unavailable, IHS's contract health services (CHS) program pays for care from external providers if the patient meets certain requirements and funding is available. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires GAO to study the adequacy of federal funding for IHS's CHS program. To examine program funding needs, IHS collects data on unfunded services -- services for which funding was not available -- from the federal and tribal CHS programs. GAO examined (1) the extent to which IHS ensures the data it collects on unfunded services are accurate to determine a reliable estimate of CHS program need, (2) the extent to which federal and tribal CHS programs report having funds available to pay for contract health services, and (3) the experiences of external providers in obtaining payment from the CHS program. GAO surveyed 66 federal and 177 tribal CHS programs and spoke to IHS officials and 23 providers.
- Notes:
- Title from title caption (viewed on Sept. 29, 2011).
- "September 2011."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "GAO-11-767."
- OCLC:
- 755043156
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