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New rules alter TRICARE's benefit structure, require beneficiaries to sign up during open enrollment.
Vice Admiral Raquel C. Bono, director of the Defense Health Agency, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the organization's vision for serving the healthcare needs of the warfighter. April 11, 2017
The annual Defense authorization bill Congress sent to President Obama’s desk on Thursday will dramatically increase the role of the Pentagon’s youngest combat support agency.
The Defense Health Agency is still a nascent organization, but its task is enormous. Its purpose is to join together the military services’ medical commands. Section 702 of the 2017 defense authorization bill adds even more responsibility by putting military treatment facilities under DHA’s umbrella. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione speaks with DHA Director Vice Adm. Raquel Bono on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the agency’s future and the challenges it’s facing currently.
The Defense Health Agency is rationalizing the hundreds of medical devices, programs and applications within military hospitals to make sure that they first can achieve interoperability with the Pentagon's new electronic health record. DHA Director Rear Adm. Raquel Bono said a new definition of "interoperability" is driving the department's initial work with the EHR.
TRICARE contract protests are now so inevitable that a company might want to file one even if they're one of the winners.
DOD made awards in the next generation of contracts to run its TRICARE health plan: $41 billion to Humana and $18 billion to Health Net.
This week’s show features two guests on two topics. We begin with Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, the commander of the Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command. We invited him on the program to talk about…
The FBI, NARA and the Navy see turnover at the executive levels. The Navy gets a new director of information dominance who is allowed to look at classified data.