| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
This is the Phase I patch of the Transitional Pharmacy Benefit Project
1) The patient must be a veteran.
2) The veteran must be enrolled for VA health care system before July 25,
2003.
3) Before July 25,2003, the veteran must have requested their first
primary care appointment with the VA.
4) The veteran must have no active prescriptions dispensed by the local
VHA pharmacy, excluding Supply and Investigational items, for the past
(TPB). This project provides functionality for the "Medication Prescribed
485 days from October 22, 2003.
5) The veteran must be waiting more than 30 days for their first
appointment with a Primary Care Physician on or after October 22,
2003, or the veteran is deemed eligible via an Electronic Wait
List/Scheduling extract run at each local site.
When the post-init of the combined build is run, the routines exported in
patch SD*5.3*300 will scan the PATIENT file (#2) and the SD WAIT LIST
by Non-VA Physicians" to accommodate the Veterans Health Administration
file (#409.3), and will build a temporary storage global of patients who
may be eligible for this benefit.
This patch is being sent out as a combined build, along with patch
PSO*7*145.
For KIDS Build and documentation retrieval information, please refer to
patch PSO*7*145.
(VHA) Directive 2003-047 that allows Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
to furnish medications from non-VA physicians. It mandates that for
eligible veterans that meet certain criteria, VHA will fill prescriptions
written by non-VA physicians and dentists. To determine eligibility, a
patient must meet the following criteria:
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