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The US Family Health Plan (USFHP) [1] is a U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored healthcare plan that serves military family members exclusively. Current regional coverage includes: northeastern United States, southwest Texas and southwest Louisiana, and the Puget Sound area of Washington State.

Services

USFHP [2] delivers full TRICARE Prime [3] benefits to more than 115,000 beneficiaries, including the family members of active-duty military, activated Guard and Reserve, and military retirees and their family members. The US Family Health Plan is distinguished by a national member satisfaction ranking that, for 2010, was 28 points higher on a 100-point scale [4] than the national average for satisfaction with health plans, based on the 224 plans documented by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in its Quality Compass 2010 Public Report [5].

Coverage

The US Family Health Plan provides a full continuum of care, from preventive and wellness programs to more intensive disease and case management initiatives for members with chronic or multiple conditions. It currently offers more than 40 disease and case management programs across all of its sites.

Enrollment in the US Family Health Plan is offered through the following community-based hospital and physician networks, known as Designated Providers: [6]

Johns Hopkins Medicine (1-800-801-9322) – serving Maryland, Washington D.C., and parts of Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia
Martin’s Point Health Care (1-888-241-4556) – serving Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and northeastern New York
Brighton Marine Health Center (1-800-818-8589) – serving Massachusetts, including Cape Cod, plus Rhode Island and northern Connecticut
St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (1-800-241-4848) – serving parts of New York, all of New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and southern Connecticut
CHRISTUS Health (1-800-678-7347) – serving southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana
Pacific Medical Centers (1-888-958-7347) – serving the Puget Sound area of Washington State.

History

The Designated Providers of the US Family Health Plan have been delivering healthcare to military beneficiaries for 27 years. In 1981, Congress enacted the Omnibus Reconciliation Act [7] designating certain former U.S. Public Health Service facilities as Uniformed Services Treatment Facilities (USTFs). The following year, the Department of Defense assumed responsibility for the USTF program from the Department of Health and Human Services. In 1993, the USTFs developed a managed care plan, called the Uniformed Services Family Health Plan, and in 1996, became “TRICARE Designated Providers”—the first DoD-sponsored, full-risk managed health care plan and the first to serve the military 65 and older population (other than on a limited demonstration basis). The Plan began offering the TRICARE Prime benefit the following year. In 2001, the name was shortened to US Family Health Plan.

Awards

Having long served military families, the US Family Health Plan in 2008 was awarded an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for a 2007 public service announcement series, “Now is Our Time to Serve”[8]. This joint public service initiative [9] with the non-profit National Military Family Association (NMFA) urged viewers to “support, befriend, remember and appreciate” America’s military family members.

References

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/090211_guard_dog_soldier
http://www.emmyonline.tv/mediacenter/public_0708_winners.html
http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=466
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/military_emmy_militaryfamilies_112108w/
http://www.usminstitute.org/newsletters/2008-11-14.htm
http://www.tricare.mil/PressRoom/news.aspx?fid=464
http://www.usminstitute.org/newsletters/2008-10-10.html
http://google.com/search?q=cache:qfTW7qTe-CUJ:dev.www.baltimoreexaminer.c om/local/36690744.html+%22US+family+health+plan%22+site:baltimoreexaminer.co m&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/LWIS-7K9RKW?OpenDocument &Site=default&cty=en_us
http://www.riverdalepress.com/full.php?sid=5264&current_edition=2008-07-17

External links

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-USFHP [http://usfhp.org/newsite/portal/default.asp] delivers full [[TRICARE]] Prime [http://www.military.com/benefits/tricare/tricare-prime/tricare-prime-overview] benefits to more than 100,000 beneficiaries, including the family members of active-duty military, activated Guard and Reserve, and military retirees and their family members. The US Family Health Plan is distinguished by a national member satisfaction ranking that, for 2008, was 42% higher than the national average [http://www.usminstitute.org/newsletters/2008-11-14.htm] for satisfaction with health plans, based on the 242 plans documented by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in its Quality Compass 2008 Public Report [http://www.ncqa.org/tabid/177/Default.aspx].
+USFHP [http://usfhp.org/newsite/portal/default.asp] delivers full [[TRICARE]] Prime [http://www.military.com/benefits/tricare/tricare-prime/tricare-prime-overview] benefits to more than 115,000 beneficiaries, including the family members of active-duty military, activated Guard and Reserve, and military retirees and their family members. The US Family Health Plan is distinguished by a national member satisfaction ranking that, for 2010, was 28 points higher on a 100-point scale [http://www.tricare.mil/pressroom/contractornews.aspx?fid=121] than the national average for satisfaction with health plans, based on the 224 plans documented by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in its Quality Compass 2010 Public Report [http://www.ncqa.org/tabid/177/Default.aspx].
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