Determinants of Dispensing Location in the TRICARE Senior Pharmacy Program
Publisher: RAND Corporation; Rand Publishing
Published: May 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780833036896
Subjects: Health systems & services; Pharmaceutical industries; Social Science; Medical / Nursing; Sociology; USA; Health Care Delivery; Non-Classifiable; General; Cost control; Costs; Drugs; Medical care; Medicine, Military; Older veterans; United States
First sentence: The military health system (MHS) serves approximately 8.6 million eligible beneficiaries, including active-duty military personnel and their family members (dependents), retired military personnel and their dependents, and surviving dependents of deceased military personnel.
Description: Provides information about where TRICARE Senior Pharmacy beneficiaries receive their medications and what factors influence where they choose to obtain their medications. The Department of Defense can reduce its pharmacy acquisition costs by shifting prescribing from retail pharmacies to military treatment facility pharmacies and/or the TRICARE mail order pharmacy. The analysis in this report supports that effort.