A CASE-STUDY OF A COORDINATED CARE PROGRAM - DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FORT-SILLS-CATCHMENT-AREA-MANAGEMENT-PROJECT

One of the Department of Defense's initiatives to contain costs of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services is the Catchment Area Management (CAM) Demonstration Project. CAM's fundament al coordinated care concept is to contain the military's health care c osts by granting the military treatment facility (MTF) commander full clinical and fiscal responsibility for the health care of all benefici aries within the MTF's catchment area. This article describes the CAM Demonstration Project at Fort Sill during its developmental and implem entation phase from June 1989 to April 1991. The six operational goals of the CAM Project are identified and discussed. Additionally, nine e ssential lessons learned are briefly reviewed.