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Bundled payment arrangements are gaining traction with some hospitals, partially due to Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative. One piece of good news from BPCI is that hospitals can obtain savings from reducing someone else's utilization—specifically that of post-acute care facilities. The fact that savings also may be gleaned from reducing readmissions could be seen as a bonus, although this result must be achieved in any case to avoid Medicare penalties.
Hospitals contemplating participating in the BCPI program should perform an in-depth analysis to determine whether they can benefit from bundled payments and, if so, how to achieve maximum benefits. The analysis should examine the extent to which the participating providers can reduce costs for episodes of care, because success under bundled payment arrangements will depend on achieving such cost reductions.
Particular attention should be given to evaluating opportunities to reduce readmissions and/or skilled nursing facility (SNF) costs (BPCI Model 2). Research suggests that these two areas present the greatest opportunity to reduce episode costs because they not only account for a large percentage of the episode costs, but also exhibit the greatest variation in utilization across the country.a
To illustrate key steps for assessing a bundled payment opportunity, we have chosen to focus on Model 2 because it offers the best opportunity for reducing episode costs, and because it helps engage and reward physicians, offering strategic benefits to the sponsoring hospital.b It also involves the least amount of administrative effort and encourages hospitals to partner with post-acute care providers to manage care transitions effectively.
Identifying whether there is opportunity in bundled payment, and where it lies, requires identifying the types of initial admissions (termed index admissions) that offer the greatest potential to reduce SNF and/or readmission costs. Depending on how much cost cutting the hospital has already done, there could be additional benefit from reducing hospital operating costs.
Hospitals that are not actively coordinating care after hospitalization (that is, most hospitals today) are likely to find there is significant potential for improvement in this area. SNF and readmission costs account for 36 percent of the average episode costs. Although many providers have begun to address 30-day readmissions in conjunction with Medicare readmission penalties, SNF costs have been largely unaddressed.
The greatest BPCI opportunity lies with major common conditions—particularly congestive heart failure, major joint replacement, and pneumonia—that are likely to have post-acute episodes of different lengths. The first 30 days after discharge constitute the critical period for generating savings on episode costs. However, hospitals choosing bundled payment that includes a 90-day post-acute period can benefit from a lower required discount from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)—i.e., 2 percent instead of 3 percent.
When seeking to identify specific conditions that offer savings opportunities, it's important to know the conditions for which SNF care adds substantially to cost and those for which readmissions are most likely. Although SNF care accounts for 24 percent of episode costs, on average, and readmissions account for 12 percent, these proportions vary tremendously by condition. For example, readmissions tend to constitute a higher percentage of costs for care around atherosclerosis, pacemaker device replacements, and medical peripheral vascular disease, whereas SNF costs tend to run higher with diabetes care, care related to hip or knee replacement, and treatment of medical noninfectious orthopedic conditions.
Exhibit 1
Performing a financial assessment is essential to getting a true picture of the financial and strategic impact of bundled payments or any new payment model.c A comprehensive assessment of financial results from a bundled payment initiative should consider direct contract results, the financial impact of reduced utilization and of improved clinical care and operations, and the net financial impact. To illustrate the requirements for such an assessment, we will present hypothetical case examples of an organization that is considering pursuing bundled payment for major joint replacement at 90-days.
Direct contract results. The organization should begin the financial assessment by modeling the direct contract results required to meet hospital goals. In this case, the direct contract results are the CMS episode savings.
Our sample BCPI participant will manage 200 episodes annually with a historical 90-day episode cost of $40,000 each, representing about $8 million in episode costs annually (see exhibit 2).
Exhibits 2 & 3
The organization wants to ensure that the 2 percent discount ($160,000) and care management and IT costs ($250,000) are covered, but also aims to have modest gain-sharing with physicians. To achieve these goals, it must target a 7 percent cost savings ($560,000).
The organization should then test the feasibility of achieving $560,000 in cost savings, and identify specific opportunities for improvement. In our example, care redesign focuses on shifting costs from higher-cost to lower-cost settings (for instance, from SNF to home health or from home health to home) and eliminating readmissions. Overall, a 20 percent cost reduction would be required in each of four targeted areas to achieve the desired level of savings, as shown in exhibit 3.
To this end, the organization should compare its readmissions and SNF length of stay and costs with industry averages to assess whether a 20 percent reduction seems feasible. The organization could also look at internal variation in readmissions and SNF costs to see whether some physicians might be able to improve their care processes. Engaging physicians in the assessment can help to verify this analysis. Let's assume that, in our example, the organization finds its SNF usage and readmissions are higher than average. Given that 20 percent savings is aggressive, the participant should next consider what it would take to achieve breakeven results (see exhibit 4 below).
Exhibit 4
Chances are that most providers will find that the direct contract results of bundled payment are breakeven or slightly positive at best. Although there is a risk of experiencing downside losses if savings are not achieved, this risk can be managed through selection of episodes where the participant has a good expectation of being able to reduce costs. Assuming direct contracting results are near breakeven, the organization should consider the impact of other financial and strategic factors.
Financial impact of reduced utilization. The impact of utilization shifts on BPCI participants will differ depending on whether they own a skilled nursing unit or facility. Participants in model 2 will reduce SNF volume, so this model is likely to be most appealing to hospitals that do not own SNFs, because they can reduce episode costs without reducing the health system bottom line.
The impact of BPCI on hospital revenues also will vary depending on whether readmissions occur at the participating facility. Nationally, most readmissions do occur at the same facility as the index admission, so if readmissions are reduced, then the hospital participant will experience the full benefit. Better coordination of care can ensure that the remaining readmissions that are necessary now occur at its facility instead of another hospital.
Again, modeling is important to teasing out the most likely impact on revenues. In our example, we assume two impacts: readmissions decrease by 20 percent from historical levels during the performance period through increased care coordination efforts, and readmissions occuring at the same hospital increase from 70 percent to 80 percent.
In this example, the participant hospital would lose $42,000 based on six fewer readmissions and the fixed costs associated with those readmissions (see exhibit 5).
Exhibit 5
Financial impact of improved clinical care and operations. It is possible that the bundled payment initiative will result in improvements in care and operations, such as reductions in hospital-acquired infections and complications, or in cost reductions from decreased duplication of services and/or supply standardization. In the past, hospitals with independent medical staffs may have had difficulty engaging physicians in developing pathways and standards of care; however, if physicians understand that they could share in the savings derived from improved quality of care and reduced costs, they are likely to be more amenable to participating in such endeavors.
Several factors will influence whether operational savings can be generated:
For modeling purposes, we assume $500 can be saved on each of the 200 episodes through supply standardization and LOS reduction efforts. The amount of savings may be much higher or lower depending on what actual operational efficiency efforts have already been achieved with respect to relevant MS-DRGs.
Hospitals may also benefit from a bundled payment initiative by avoiding readmission penalties. However, the overall impact for a participant engaged in only one episode may be slight. In this model, we assume zero impact in reducing or affecting readmission penalties, although readmission penalties for major joint conditions are expected by 2015 and the performance period would occur from 2014 to 2016.
Net financial impact. At this point, after having addressed the three more quantitative aspects of the financial impact of a bundled payments initiative on a hospital participant, the hospital can consider the likely net financial impact. In our example, assuming a 7 percent savings can be achieved, a hospital participant is likely to reach breakeven and/or create a modest savings pool to be shared with the physicians (see the upper exhibit on page 81). Pooling positive effects related not only to the direct contract, but also to any operational savings may increase the liklihood of having funds to share with physicians.
Although the financial benefits to both parties are somewhat limited, the hospital may also be able to gain significant competitive and strategic benefits from pursuing bundled payment. The hospital therefore should consider these aspects of the opportunity before finalizing its decision about pursuing a bundled payment initiative.
Some hospitals may be interested in bundled payment as a way to respond to increasing value-based payment in a market, using a model that does not require as much change as accountable care. A potential hospital participant may see bundled payment as a strategy to ensure competitors are not actively encroaching on its market share. A hospital that engages in bundled payment more extensively (e.g., more than 10 episodes) can improve its chances of holding its own against competitor initiatives.
More narrowly, a bundled payment initiative also can be an effective competitive response for key, profitable service lines, particularly where a hospital has an independent medical staff and wants to retain key or loyal physicians. Many such bundled payment initiatives focus on orthopedic and cardiac care and highly profitable procedures.Will the potential savings from both internal and episode savings be enough to ensure physician participation? The answer depends on the extent to which physicians have taken a leadership role in redesigning care and have been willing to increase their focus on managing costs across episodes in bundled payment arrangements. Under such circumstances, the physicians will probably have had to yield some autonomy and rely more on protocols and pathways to help determine the next level of care. The hospital also will need to perform more measurements and comparisons and focus on quality of care, not only in the initial hospitalization, but also in post-acute settings.
Exhibit 6
Moreover, physicians may not regard gain-sharing distributions alone as sufficiently attractive to compel them to participate, so it is important that they also understand the other aspects of the opportunity.
With waivers for certain fraud and abuse laws available for those piloting this initiative, it is possible to share not only in the episode savings, but also in the hospital internal operating cost savings. With modest costs savings, physicians may realize only modest distributions, such as is shown under our scenario in the exhibit at right. Nonetheless, the arrangement is risk-free for most physicians, and if incremental operational savings and episode savings are achieved, it is a win. Although there are restrictions under BPCI to ensure that the distributions do not exceed 50 percent of the physicians' previous year's fee-for-service revenues, it is unlikely that this level of distributions can be achieved.
Overall, bundled payment requires a lot of work to get physicians on board, redesign care, enable data and information sharing solutions, and administer gain sharing. So why would a hospital choose to enroll? There are several compelling strategic benefits.
Carryover benefits. The hospital may be engaged only in Medicare bundled payment, but once physicians are on board, the physicians will be more inclined to implement operational and quality improvements for patients with other insurance as well. For example, orthopedic surgeons associated with this initiative may consider bringing patients now being admitted to other hospitals to the participating hospital, whether to simplify their practice or because they appreciate the coordinated system of care being extended to patients beyond the bundled payment initiative.
Exhibit 7
Positive patient reaction. Traditionally, the link between hospital care and post-acute care has tended to be weak, making it difficult for patients to navigate a complex healthcare environment. Patients may appreciate a more seamless care network, building the hospital's reputation as a center of excellence for care of a particular condition.
Good partners. Hospitals that are engaged in bundled payment initiatives are more likely to be good partners for accountable care organizations, narrow network arrangements, and self-insured entities. As low-cost providers focused on operational excellence in managing episodic care, such hospitals can position themselves to effectively manage the cost of care for these networks, where transitions of care and readmission reduction programs are emphasized.
Readiness for new payment models. Hospitals that participate in bundled payment will be developing a recipe for successful care coordination that includes managing costs while maintaining or improving quality. It takes time to master these processes, so hospitals that have participated in BPCI will have a head start on adopting the requisite best practices in their own institutions should bundled payment be rolled out globally. Having physicians and clinical leaders who have expertise with bundled payment will be useful in ensuring success on a broader scale.
The direct financial benefits of a bundled payment initiative may be breakeven or a slight win for hospital participants, at best. However, the competitive and strategic benefits may make participation worthwhile. A focused bundled payment initiative is an opportunity to "dip one's toe in the water" of payment change without significant implications for the hospital's volume or market share while still aligning with physicians.
The opportunity for participating physicians is greater, especially if both post-acute costs (read: missions and skilled nursing) and internal clinical and operational costs can be addressed.
Bundled payment requires real culture change, even if it is focused within a fraction of the total care provided by hospitals. Hospitals and physicians will need to work together more closely not only to address clinical and operational costs in the hospital, but also to address the costs of care across an episode of 30 to 90 days. They will engage more closely with post-acute providers, such as skilled nursing, to focus on readmissions, skilled nursing LOS, and transitions of care to home and the community
With everyone watching the care process, better quality and lower cost care just might be achieved. Because CMS already has the legislative authority to roll out bundled payment more broadly, it is wise to be prepared. Thus, whether or not hospitals choose to participate in bundled payment now, they should be watching bundled payment participants and considering what steps they would need to take in the event of a broad roll-out.
John Harris is a principal, DGA Partners, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., and a member of HFMA's Metropolitan Philadelphia Chapter.
Idette Elizondo is a manager, DGA Partners, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., and a member of HFMA's New Jersey Chapter.
Andrew Isdaner is an analyst, DGA Partners, Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
a. Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care, Institute of Medicine, March 22, 2013, (search on key words healthcare spending).
b. For information about the CMS BPCI Initiative and its four models.
c. Harris, J.M., and Hemnani, R., "The Transition to Emerging>Revenue Models," hfm, April 2013.
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OMG! Where in HK is this? How come I don't know about it? Arrgh.
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btw is this place open to the public?
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of the buildings are open because the upper floors are offices which
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Btw, in June 2004, "Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) and Philips Electronics Hong Kong Ltd (Philips) announced the signing of a major lease agreement for facilities at the Science Park. The new location will house several of Philips' business units including Consumer Electronics - Mobile Infotainment and business creation activities for Personal Infotainment and mobile phones, Home Entertainment Networks, Mobile Display Systems and Philips Design, currently located at different offices. The facility at Science Park will become the worldwide headquarters for Philips Mobile Infotainment and also the regional headquarters for Philips Design, one of the largest design studios in the world."
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Oh, but people are free to walk around or visit the outside daily right?
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looks very nice and neat, and i dont think they should build taller building, hk already has enough tall buildings, what they lack is regular buildings... good luck hk with this project!
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Science Park is located along Tolo Harbour in the northern suburbs. The area is quite low in density, with the Chinese University of HK sprawled out along the hillsides nearby and the highrise towers of Ma On Shan across the other side of the harbour.
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Dutch electronics giant launches regional and global offices, becoming first multinational to set up shop at hi-tech centre
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Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa officiates at the opening of the Philips Electronics Building at the Science & Technology Park February 2, saying Hong Kong has the ingredients to be an innovation and technology hub.
With his technology development policies often criticised, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa could get used to more days like yesterday, when Royal Philips Electronics opened a clutch of regional and global offices in Hong Kong.
Philips launched a new six-storey building at the Hong Kong Science Park in Tai Po, becoming its first major multinational corporate tenant and propping up government efforts to establish a cluster of high-technology research and development facilities at the site.
The Dutch giant, which moved its Asia-Pacific headquarters from Singapore to Hong Kong, also inaugurated its new regional base at Three Pacific Place in Wan Chai.
"This represents a vote of confidence in the future of Hong Kong," said Andreas Wente, the president and chief executive of Philips Electronics Asia-Pacific.
More than two years after it signed on as a tenant, Philips has relocated to the Science Park the global headquarters for its consumer audio-visual electronics business, Philips Mobile Infotainment, and its small displays unit, Mobile Display Systems.
The company also set up the Asia-Pacific office for Philips Design at the park, which now provides its largest design studios in the world with a floor area of 89,000 square feet.
Mr Wente said Philips was keen to tap "more creative people" in Hong Kong to boost its research and design teams in the city, as more manufacturing is being done in the mainland.
Murray Camens, a vice-president at Philips Design, said many of the consumer electronics products released by Philips worldwide were designed by its Hong Kong team, which averaged 600 design projects a year.
Philips has almost 3,000 staff in Hong Kong, with more than 450 in Wan Chai and about 400 at the Science Park. Other employees work at its factories in Kwai Chung. The company has been operating in Hong Kong since 1948.
Mr Wente said setting up the new offices in Hong Kong, which will oversee the company's manufacturing facilities in the mainland, also supported Philips' strategy to sharpen its focus on Asia-Pacific markets, where sales last year grew 17 per cent year on year.
"We are striving to generate 33 per cent of Philips' total global revenue from the Asia-Pacific by 2008, with focus on health care, lifestyle and technology," he said.
The Philips launch seemed to give Mr Tung renewed optimism over the government's "very substantial and persistent investment in science and technology" over the past seven years.
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The government-backed Science Park, like Cyberport in Pokfulam, has been criticised as being in competition with the top office developments in the city.
Still, it has been a long walk in the park. In June 2002, Science Park officials claimed more than 70 per cent occupancy in the site's first phase when Philips signed on. That was still the number cited by officials yesterday.
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Food was amazing, helps to have a former executive chef making you breakfast! Had cookies, bottle water, tea and coffee available at all times and really opened up their house to us, including a huge selection of DVDs and loads of common room space. We had our own separate entrance, though I think this is unique to only one of the rooms. Great suggestions on the town including maps and information we were looking for.
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Our hosts Kent and Nancy were wonderful. They thought of everything, lovely and comfortable furnishings throughout the house, coffee, tea, fresh fruit and cookies and absolutely delicious gourmet breakfasts made by Kent. They provided robes, rooms with large sitting areas, large closets, flat screen TV's and the most comfortable beds. Their B&B was immaculate, modern and filled with beautiful furnishings inside and beautiful plantings surrounding the house. We highly recommend their B&B. Sybil E. Norwich, New York
Food wonderful. Accommodations lovely. Atmosphere soothing.
Kent, our host, was dedicated to making us happy. The B&B is beautifully and comfortably furnished. Our apartment was spacious and complete with a refrigerator and coffee maker. Of course, breakfast was outstanding.
Our room was delightful and especially clean. Our host was very pleasant and informative; Great to chat with and learn about the area. The area was close to town and with walking distance for us.
Nothing.....would highly suggest people consider this great B&B
Weather was lovely so was able to enjoy their beautiful patio in the evening. Nice rooms and great breakfast. It's just a few blocks from the tourist area of Niagara on the Lake
Everything, the breakfast was great and you felt right at home
We liked it all
Nothing we didn't like
Gourmet breakfasts every morning, cosy room with extraordinarily comfortable bed, quiet and green grounds and neighbourhood, gracious hosts, very clean home, lovely atmosphere all around.
Our 2 nite stay was very relaxing and enjoyable. The room was great and the breakfasts were delicious. Kent and Nancy are wonderful hosts and we would recommend staying here when visiting NOTL.
The breakfasts were delicious, healthy and varied. Extra touches as well like bottled water stocked in the mini fridge, coffee, fruit and cookies. Appreciate the extra effort the owners took. Separate entrance and sitting area added extra privacy.
Extreme clean, comfortable and a wonderful breakfast! Friendly, helping people which could recommand a lot of places around. Restaurants, winery etc
Nothing. All is good.
the room, the food, the hostesses, the complete stay was wonderful
There was nothing we didn't like. :)
We loved everything about this Bed and Breakfast! It is a beautifully decorated home inside and out and our room was roomy, clean and the king size bed was very comfortable. Great attention was paid to every detail throughout the house and personal touches were much appreciated. The owners, Kent and Nancy were very friendly, accommodating and helpful. The breakfasts each morning were delicious and so well presented!(Kent is a chef by trade). We had never stayed in a B and B before and our experience was first class. We will definitely be back!
There wasn't anything we didn't like!
Kent and Nancy could write the book on B&Bs! It is exquisite! Pristine yet welcoming and comfortable. Kent is a chef. The breakfasts he served were delectable. Truly a special place. Hated to leave.
We liked almost everything about the Maria's B and B. Very friendly and accommodating owner-operators that provided some very nice extras to make the stay pleasant.
The breakfasts are really made with great care and served with finesse. But if you are a vegetarian or interested in a "lighter" breakfast you may have to ask for it. We didn't but perhaps should have. it may be that less is better than more for some with regards to the breakfast.
Everything was perfect!Most of all our hosts Kent & Courtney.Thank you!
Not a thing
What a great place! Kent and Nancy have created a very comfortable and inviting place. Superb accommodations, wonderful breakfast. Immaculate and superior in every way.
Great breakfast. Friendly host. Lovely room
- Every detail was carefully thought out - house was very well maintained - room was very nice from size to style - breakfast was great - hosts kent and Nancy were amazing and very welcoming - close to everything - highly recommend staying
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I went out this morning for a quick run along La Seine. That was fun. There were very few people out, which made it easier. Paris is a city for strollers, not runners. In this small section of the city, everyone seems to be offering a variation on the phrase "And I wasn't even trying."
Women pedal their bikes up the streets, without helmets, in long white dresses; or they whizz past in pink daisy dukes and matching roller skates. Men wear orange pants and white linen shirts. They parler un petit peu then disappear around corners. When I next see them they are pushing porsches up St. Germain, top down, loving their lives. Couples sit next to each other in the cafes, watching the street. There are rows of them assembled as though in a spread from Vogue, or as a stylish display of manequins. Everyone smokes. They know what awaits them--grizzly death, orgies, in no particular order.
I came home. I showered. I dressed. I walked across the way and bought some bread and milk. My wife brewed coffee. We had breakfast. Then a powerful fatigue came over me and I slept till noon. When I woke, my son was dressed. My wife was wearing a Great Gatsby tee-shirt, shades, earrings and jeans. Her hair was pulled back and blown out into big beautiful Afro. We walked out and headed for the RER. My son was bearing luggage. This is the last we'd see of him for six weeks.
It was on the train that I realized I'd gone mad. I started studying French through the old FSI tapes and workbook. I then moved on to classes at Alliance Française. Next I hired a personal tutor. We would meet at a café in my neighborhood. Sometimes my son would stop by. I noticed he liked to linger around. One day he asked if he could be tutored in French. It struck me as weird, but I went with it. In June he did a two-week class--four hours a day. He stayed with my father. He woke up at 6 a.m. to get to class on time, and didn't get back until twelve hours later. He would eat dinner and then sleep like a construction worker. But he liked it. Now I was sending him off to an immersion sleep-away camp--Française tout les jours.
It is insane. I am trying to affect the aggression of my childhood home, the sense of constant unremitting challenge, sans the violence. A lot of us who come up hard revere the lessons we learned, even if they were rendered by the belt or boot. How do we pass those lessons on without subjecting our children to those forces? How do we toughen them for a world that will bring war to them, without subjecting them to abuse? My only answer is to put them in strange and different places, where no one cares that someone somewhere once told them they were smart. My only answer is try to mimic the style of learning I have experienced as an adult and adapt it for childhood.
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Every municipal police and fire department has mastered the oldest bureaucratic budget maneuver in the book: If told to cut your budget slightly, don't eliminate unneeded positions, buy less fancy office furniture, or delay buying new cars and equipment.
Just announce the closure of an entire police or fire station.
As the Chicago Tribune reported not long ago, "'Everybody on the City Council is in favor of facilities consolidation until they start to talk about the police station in their neighborhood,' said Ald. Ricardo Munoz, 22nd, who added that he would fight attempts to close the station in his ward."
Since protecting citizens' lives is the first duty of government, public-safety functions are usually the last to feel the effects of tightened budgets. This is especially true at the federal level, where cuts to the defense budget are generally portrayed as assaults on the nation's very existence. There are a variety of reasons to tread softly on any sort of defense cuts: You only get to err by under-defending the country once. The battlefield edge today, and even more so in the future is a product of advanced—and expensive—technologies. Those who put their lives on the line for the rest of us deserve the best equipment and protective gear, and the most reasonable pay and benefits, that we can afford.
But does that mean that we cannot cut the defense budget without short-changing national security? To hear some tell it the answer is "no." But the Defense Department is part of the same government that most Americans abjure for its inefficiency, waste, and fraud. In fact, you can find just about everything that's wrong with government in the defense budget. Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn, no liberal, has derided the Pentagon as the "Department of Everything" for its wide-ranging activities.
Of all the services that critics complain the Pentagon needlessly duplicates—from schools and rec centers to scientific research and grocery stores—the most expensive is health care. Ten percent of the Pentagon's non-war budget—$53 billion—goes to health care. As with civilian health care, savings are achievable here but face implacable opposition from military retirees. But as no less a military enthusiast than John McCain said last year on the Senate floor, "We are going to have to get serious about entitlements for the military just as we are going to have to get serious about entitlements for nonmilitary."
Fortunately, there are ways to cut defense spending without hurting military capabilities. Besides maintaining its war-fighting capability, DoD, like any entity, maintains a back-office bureaucracy to oversee its business functions. That overhead accounts for roughly 40 percent of its budget. It's hard to compare different industries, or even government agencies, but one examination of 25 industries showed average overhead rates ranging from 13 to 50 percent, with the average across all industries being 25 percent. A RAND study of overhead and administration costs among defense contractors found them to be "tremendous drivers" of weapon costs at 35 percent. The largest domestic programs—Social Security and Medicare—get by with costs in the single-digits.
Cutting Pentagon overhead to the average would save roughly $80 billion a year. Looked at another way, the department employs 800,000 civilians. Not only is that more than the population of four states, it's not quite half of all civilian federal employees, more than twice as many as the next-largest agency (Veterans Affairs), four times the number of civilian employees at the Department of Homeland Security and basically the size of all the remaining federal agencies combined. Think there might be some savings possible there?
And that understates the "back office." There are also 560,000 active-duty military personnel who "never deploy," and an estimated 700,000 "ghost" civil servants—contractors doing government jobs—meaning that as many as 2 million people who will never face the enemy are on the Pentagon payroll. Coburn has called for staffing a quarter of these jobs -- handling supply chain, transportation, human resources, and communications services—with cheaper civilian employees, which would save $5 billion annually. When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel launched a Strategic Choices Management Review earlier this year to study the impact of further budget reductions on the department and to develop options to deal with additional cuts, four leading defense think tanks conducted an analysis of their own to find cuts. Each of the tanks recommended reducing the Pentagon's civilian workforce, by amounts ranging between 10 and 27 percent.
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