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Archive for July 2012

Walgreens and Express Scripts Resolve Contract Dispute

WASHINGTON—Walgreens and Express Scripts, the company that manages TRICARE’s pharmacy benefit, have resolved their contract dispute. The new agreement will bring Walgreens back into the Express Scripts pharmacy network. “We are happy to include Wa...

BP Treatment May Be Excessive For VA Patients with Diabetes - Too Much of a Good Thing

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BP Treatment May Be Excessive For VA Patients with Diabetes - Too Much of a Good Thing

Another 197,291 (20%) of the DM patients had a BP lower than 130/65 mm Hg, and, of those, 80,903 had potential overtreatment. That represented 8% of all patients with DM. The authors noted that facility pass rates varied from 77% to 99%, with faci...

BP Treatment May Be Excessive For VA Patients with Diabetes - Too Much of a Good Thing

ANN ARBOR, MI — VA clinicians may be doing too good of a job of controlling blood pressure in patients with diabetes, according to research suggesting that as many as 8% of those veterans may have been overtreated.

VA Ahead of Schedule in Improving Chronic Pain Care

Step Two: Expanding and Collaborating with Specialty-Care Clinics “We want to have at least one ‘pain champion’ in every primary-care clinic who takes responsibility for developing collaborative-care models with specialists at the center and pain ...

VA Ahead of Schedule in Improving Chronic Pain Care

Step One: Support and Training for Primary Care Having the infrastructure for research and analysis in place has allowed the VA to rapidly implement the Stepped Care Model for pain management by developing several training programs for primary car...

VA Ahead of Schedule in Improving Chronic Pain Care

PHILADELPHIA — While VHA must face the challenge of meeting the needs both of aging veterans and recently deployed servicemembers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, the two groups have at least one problem in common: a high incidence of chronic pain.

Disability Evaluation Waits Up Despite Efforts to Speed Process

IDES Processing Time “Now that the joint system has been implemented nationwide, I have to say that I am far from convinced the departments have implemented a disability evaluation process that is truly transparent, consistent or expeditious,” ...

Disability Evaluation Waits Up Despite Efforts to Speed Process

WASHINGTON — While VA and DoD have reported to Congress that they have been working to speed up the time it takes injured and ill troops to get through the disability evaluation system, the waits actually have gotten longer, according to GAO testimony at a recent hearing.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work

This can be quite an adjustment for three teen-aged girls and an independent spouse used to not depending on “the captain” for decisions or everyday running of the house. It certainly is an adjustment for the captain, when the realization hits hom...
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