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HRD-76-140 1 (1976-06-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaalz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: F14- D t C7C.E-rTRO!_LCYF GZ, ERAL Or TH4E UJNI-wE. E.TA'MS WASHiPJTCN. D C 3-[7v June 15 197 B--133310 The Fon, :able Melvin Price Cncir; ,at Committee on \rmed S rvices House of ecresentatives Dear Mr. ChairMan: This is in response to your April 27, 1976, recuest for information on the total Federal costs involved in t:Jin~nq physicians through the Armed Forces Iealth Professions Scholarship Progr. As discussed wiLh ;our office, -e based our work on (1) information contained in a January 1974 re- port, Costs of Education in the ioalth Professions, pre- pared by the National Acadeiiiy of Sciences t Institute of edicin~ aind (2) data obtained from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) and the Veterans Administration (VA) reqarding Federal grants provided to medicz2. scnools. HEW and VA provide most of the FeCeral subsidies to civilian medical schools. OUR COST-EFFECTIVENESS REPORT On May 5, 1976, we issued a report entitled Cost- Effectiveness Analysis of Two Military Physician Procurement Programs: The Scholarshie Pccgrar and The University Pro- gram (MWD-76-122). We used a cost-effectiveness analysis to -how the incremental costs expected to he incurred by the Department of Defense in fi-scal year 1984--the firt !ear or siultaneous full operation of both military physician pro- curement programs. Our analysis showed that the costs (in- cluding anticipated p; , and r'etirement costs) per staff-year of expected physician services from an estimated 968 crada- ates of the Scholarship Program would be $21,444, compared to $26,236 per staff-year of service expected from the antici- pated 173 graduates of the University program who will be supplying services to the Department. In our analys7is, we included as incr'emental Ccosts asso-- ciated with the Scholarship Program estimates of (I) the stipends to be paid by the Department to Scholarship Program participants, (2) the Department's-payment of Scholarship Program-related medical tuition and fees to civilian medical scnocvis, acd 1j c.e ,eEatrtncts costs to coniruscer roe HRD-76-140 0EI5; EST DOC J-I'ENT AVLANBLE, -=7BE UMZZ

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