Data and Information Requirements for the Department of Veterans Affairs Resource Allocation Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9101833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | LAURA LEHNER (Congressional Budget Office), James Burge (0000-0002-6646-7071, Congressional Budget Office), JAMES BURGESS, DAVID HULTS (Congressional Budget Office), Theodore Stefos (Congressional Budget Office) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | Supplement |
| Pages | 21-30 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-199603001-00003 |
| PMID | 8598685 |
| OpenAlex | W1972794641 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The department of Veterans Affairs (VA) uses a global budgeting process to allocate congressionally appropriated resources to provide medical care to veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs has developed this process to accommodate the effects of changes in pure inflation, workload, and cost per unit of work in forecasting operating dollars required for facility global budgets. In 1990, VA began shifting to a new method of allocating its global budget called Resource Planning and Management (RPM), based on a capitated system. Facilities receive resources according to their unit costs and the number and type of patients they are expected to serve. A key characteristic of any global budgeting information system is flexibility. The VA information system accesses the portion of each patients's care that is provided at every facility and aggregates this information across all facilities to create a single prorated patient record; the system reconstructs prior years of data into the new patient-centered format to forecast workload. No other health care system in the United States pays for and directly provides such a diverse set of services for such a large population as does VA. Nevertheless, many of the problems VA faces are similar to those of other providers and insurers
Business · Economics · Environmental health · Flexibility (engineering) · Health care · Information system · Medical emergency · Operations management · Operations research · Population · Process (computing) · Resource allocation · Unit (ring theory) · Veterans Affairs · Work (physics) · Workload · Computer Science · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Management Information Systems · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Psychology
Studying Outcomes and Hospital Utilization in the Elderly
Changes in VA Hospital Use 1980-1990
Older Veterans?? Future Use of VA Health Care Services
Supply-Side and Demand-Side Cost Sharing in Health Care
The effect of distance to VA facilities on the choice and level of utilization of VA outpatient services
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |