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A healthcare professional that uses a collaborative approach in identifying patient and disease specific education and care needs, to provide comprehensive, patient-centered, proactive strategies promoting prevention, health, and wellness concepts that support the provider’s Plan of Care. In the direct care system (DCS), the disease manager delivers...
Master's prepared registered nurses (RN) or licensed clinical social workers (SW) who is assigned to a severely WII Service member and veteran. The federal recovery coordinator (FRC) is stationed at either at a military treatment facilities (MTF), Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center or Wounded Warrior Program and serves as the constant point of contact f...
Civilian hospitals or clinics or physician or provider offices where healthcare is provided to TRICARE beneficiaries.
Systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate healthcare for specific clinical circumstances. CPGs define the role of specific diagnostic and treatment modalities in the diagnosis and management of patients. The statements contain recommendations based on evidence from a rigorous systematic review and s...
Provides utilization management (UM) activities and functions by using military treatment facilities (MTF) specific quality improvement processes to identify areas for review from data, suspected problem areas, and input from departments or services within the facility. The utilization manager prioritizes accordingly based on high dollar, high volume or p...
A group that provides senior leadership for collaboration and resource sharing between VA and DoD.
An integrated managed care model that promotes utilization management UM, clinical case management (CM), and disease management (DM) programs as a hybrid approach to managing patient care. It includes a shift to evidenced-based outcome-oriented utilization management (UM), and a greater emphasis on integrating clinical practice guidelines (CPG) ...
A clinical case manager uses a collaborative process under the population health continuum to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate options and services to meet an individual’s health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality, cost effective outcomes. The Managed Care Support Contractors (MCSC) ...
A joint program of DoD and VA designed to assist severely wounded, ill, and injured (WII) post 9/11 Service members, veterans, and their families with access to care, services, and benefits provided through the various programs in DoD, VA, other federal agencies, States, and the private sector. Eligibility for Federal Recovery Coordination Program (FRCP) ...
A methodology that addresses the issue of managing the use of resources while also measuring the quality of the care delivered. UM is an organization-wide, interdisciplinary approach to balancing cost, quality, and risk concerns in the provision of patient care. UM is an expansion of traditional UR activities to encompass the management of all available h...
Military units within the DOD Wounded Warrior programs or other military organizations to which recovering service members (RSMs) are assigned or attached for support during outpatient rehabilitation and transition.
A person who works for, or with, the Recovery Coordination Program (RCP) that provides recovering service members (RSMs) with meaningful activity that positively impacts wellness and rehabilitation of the RSM. The RCP offers a formal means of transition back to military service or to the civilian workforce by placing them in internships, to the extent aut...
A team of personnel that provides individual support to an RSM. Each service defines its respective RTs. RT members include but are not limited to: Recovery Care Coordinator, Medical Case Manager, Non-medical Case Manager, Transition Coordinator, other support personnel.
A DOD, non-paid federal government internship for RSMs on active duty.
Also known as “transition,” it is a process that may include leaving military service by way of discharge, separation or retirement, or release from active duty.
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