A fact sheet for vetrans encouraging them to talk about deployment, how to start conversations about deploymnet, and the importance of talking about difficult things after you return from a deployment.

This fact sheet explains the Health Plan Identifier and Other Entity Identifiers

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (Section 1173(a)(2)(B)) identified electronic “Health Care Claims Attachments” as a transaction for which a standard was to be adopted. A proposed rule was published in 2005, but a final rule was never published due to questions about the maturity of the standards being ...

Formulary Management for Weight Loss Agents

This document lists the private sector health care partners that the Military Health System can currently share information with.

This fact sheet describes equipment needs for amputees based on level and number of amputations.

VHA TRAIN is an external learning management system to provide valuable, Veteran-focused, accredited, continuing medical education at no cost to community health care providers.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), and Federal Information Requirements

This fact sheet provides a system overview of the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED). DMED is a web-based tool to remotely query de-identified active component personnel and medical event data contained within the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS). Learn about the newly released version of DMED and its key features in this document.

This fact sheet provides information on osseointegration (OI) and the use of this procedure for the direct skeletal attachment of prosthetic limbs in Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries with amputations.

TRICARE Managed Care Support Contractors (MCSCs), acting as a health plan/payer, are required to accommodate and be compliant with the transactions for Health Care Electronic Funds Transfers (EFTs) and Remittance Advice (RA). These standards intended to streamline the format and data content of transmissions a health plan sends to its bank when it ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) establishes a single set of operating rules for each Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) transaction and promulgate rules to establish its adoption. Operating Rules affect TRICARE where it employs HIPAA electronic transactions in Private Sector Care as a Health Plan/Payer and in ...

This fact sheet provides details on the demographic and military traits of service members diagnosed as traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases during a 16-year surveillance period from 2001 through 2016, a total of 276,858 active component service members received first-time diagnoses of TBI - a structural alteration of the brain or physiological ...

This fact sheet provides details on Rhabdomyolysis by location for active component, U.S. Armed Forces during a five-year surveillance period from 2012 through 2016. The medical treatment facilities at nine installations diagnosed at least 50 cases each and, together approximately half (49.9%) of all diagnosed cases.