CHAMPUS Reports Improvement in Behavioral Health With Foundation

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An early analysis of the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative (CRI) reports improved beneficiary satisfaction and cost savings as a result of its health care financing demonstration project - particularly in the area of behavioral health. The CRI demonstration project has provided 680,000 beneficiaries in California and Hawaii with health benefits under a triple-option health insurance program administered by Foundation Health Corporation of Sacramento, California since 1988. Under this agreement, Foundation is “at risk’ for the entire beneficiary population, according . . .