title: GAO's role in the evaluation of federal health programs.
abstract: The General Accounting Office (GAO) is a legislative branch agency whose mission is to support the oversight role of Congress. Health policy issues have constituted a substantial part of GAO's recent workload. Whereas GAO's work on health has ranged broadly, it has often focused on fraud and abuse in federal programs, particularly Medicare and Medicaid; the lack of meaningful indicators and other information, particularly on outcomes in health programs; access to care, increasingly connected to managed care; quality of care; and issues related to cost control.
authors: M V
authors: MV
authors: Nadel
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D005607:Fraud; D006077:Government Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States