Tricare Pharmacy Pilot: Improved Monitoring Needed with Expansion of Pilot Requirements

Abstract

For covered brand maintenance medicationsthose medications that are taken on a regular and recurring basisthe Department of Defense (DOD) has not fully monitored availability or the timeliness and accuracy of prescriptions filled for the TRICARE for Life Pharmacy Pilot. Specifically, GAO found that for the mail-order program: DOD has monitored the availability of medications. It has also established and monitored performance standards on the timeliness and accuracy of prescriptions filled through mail order for all of TRICARE, but has not separately monitored performance through mail order for the pilot. military-treatment-facility (MTF) pharmacies: DOD has not established or systematically monitored performance standards for the pilot on the availability of covered medications, or the timeliness and accuracy of prescriptions filled across MTF pharmacies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1166524

Entities

People

  • Debra A. Draper

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Accuracy
  • Active Duty
  • Availability
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • House Of Representatives
  • Maintenance
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Pharmacies
  • Prescription Drugs
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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