Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS); Specialized Treatment Services (STS) Program

Resumen

This notice is to advise interested parties that Wilford Hall Medical Center (WHMC) has been designated as the first national STS facility for liver transplants. The STS Program establishes new requirements for CHAMPUS beneficiaries to obtain some highly specialized health care services from selected military and civilian treatment facilities. These designations will be based on the highly specialized capabilities of those selected facilities. The purpose of such designations is to concentrate patient referrals for certain highly specialized procedures which are of relatively low incidence and/or relatively high per-case cost and which require patient concentration to permit resource investment and enhance the effectiveness of quality assurance efforts.