Amendment to the Policy of Implementing Payments of Incentive Special Pay for Nurse Anesthetists for Fiscal Year 2004 Retroactive to October 1, 2004

Termination of Subsistence Surcharge for Uniformed Services Personnel in Military Treatment Facilities

This Memorandum of Agreement provides the conditions, stipulations, and responsibilities of each party to support a cooperative separation process that will meet the needs of VA disability compensation evaluation and DoD separation/retirement assessment.

Policy Guidance for FluMist Influenza Vaccine

This VA memorandum is to direct all VA medical facilities to become TRICARE Network Providers.

Designation of Protocols as "Contingency Investigational New Drug Protocols for Force Health Protection." This policy supercedes HA Policy 03-003.

Final Policy Guidance for the Use of Flu Vaccine for the 2004-2005 Season

Our military strategies mandate that the cunent medical force structure be more responsive in diverse operations and the Military Health Care System must develop and train for the next generation of rapid, joint, self-managed and scalable response assets.

DoD Guidance for Preparation and Response to an Influenza Pandemic Caused by the Bird Flu

This letter outlines the roles of the HIPAA Security Official at the TRICARE Regional Offices. This person oversees all ongoing activities related to the development, implementation, and maintenance of the organization’s policies and procedures covering the security of electronic patient information.

This letter outlines HIPAA Security responsibilities for Service specific policy and procedure development and implementation. A Service Headquarters level HIPAA Security Official in each Service is needed.

This letter outlines the requirements for Medical Treatment Facility and Dental Treatment Facility (MTF/DTF) personnel to be assigned the responsibility of managing and supervising the execution and use of security measures to protect data as well as the responsibility of managing and supervising the conduct of personnel in relation to those measures.

Policy for Implementing Payments of the Nurse Officer Accession Bonus and Incentive Special Pay for Nurse Anesthetists for Fiscal Year 2005

Policy Revision to Increase Pre-deployment Administration of Anthrax and Smallpox Vaccinations to 60 Days