Decentralized Segments are located at the Naval Hospitals and Medical Clinics which provide services or perform work giving rise to such accounts receivable. Official mailing addresses are published as an appendix to the Navy's compilation of system of record notices.
Coverage also includes sponsors and other persons responsible for the debts of such persons.
All commercial insurance carriers with whom the Department of the Navy has filed a claim under the Third Party Payers Act. To identify and facilitate payment of amounts owed the U.S. Users of the information include Bureau of Medicine and Surgery personnel who are directly involved in processing payments or billings of patient accounts. The information is used to determine amounts owed, methods to be employed to effect recovery, whether or not the claim can be compromised or collection action thereon terminated or suspended. To determine amounts owed by third party health insurers, and to collect charges for utility bills and other miscellaneous items. File may be forwarded to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service for investigation or to any component of DOD, as needed, in the performance of their duties related to same.