Military Health System

2003 Adult Codebook and User's Guide (Q3)

This Codebook and Users’ Guide provides a tool for programmers and analysts to assist them in creating cross-tabulations and basic statistical estimates from the 2003 Adult Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries (HCSDB).

The Who, What, When, and Where of the Security Rule

This fact sheet explains the HIPAA Security Rule and states who must comply with it.

2004 Adult Sampling Report

This report documents the procedures Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) used to design and select the sample of adult beneficiaries for the first QBS of 2004.

Department of Defense Influenza and Viral Respiratory Surveillance Guidance for the 2003-2004 Influenza Season

• Identification #: 03-020
• Date: 10/29/2003
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Chiropractic Care for Active Duty Members of the Uniformed Services. This supplements policy 03-001 and 03-005

• Identification #: 03-021
• Date: 10/29/2003
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Policy on Personnel on Medical Hold

• Identification #: 03-026
• Date: 10/29/2003
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

VA DoD Health Care Resource Sharing Rates: Outpatient Services Billing Guidance

This guidance further implements the MOA signed by the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) and the Under Secretary for Health, Department of Veterans Affairs.

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 10/24/2003
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Revised Policy for "Board Certification Pay for Non-Physician Health Care Providers" This revises policy 95-013

• Identification #: 03-019
• Date: 10/20/2003
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

Guidance for Industry Recommendations for Deferral of Donors and Quarantine and Retrieval of Blood and Blood Products in Recent Recipients of Smallpox Vaccine [Vaccinia Virus] and Certain Contacts of Smallpox Vaccine Recipients

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 10/16/2003
• Type: Guidelines
• Topics: Smallpox (ACAM2000)

MDR Current Customer Satisfaction Survey

Policy for Implementing Payments of the Nurse Officer Acession Bonus and Incentive Special Pay for Nurse Anesthetists for Fiscal Year 2004

• Identification #: 03-018
• Date: 10/3/2003
• Type: Memorandums
• Topics: N/A

2003 Adult Questionnaire (Q4)

2003 Adult Questionnaire (Q4, 2003)

Title 38 Section 8111, DoD-VA Sharing of Health Care Resources

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Defense shall enter into agreements and contracts for the mutually beneficial coordination, use, or exchange of use of the health care resources of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense with the goal of improving the access to, and quality and cost effectiveness of, the health care provided by the Veterans Health Administration and the Military Health System to the beneficaries of both Departments.

• Identification #: Title 38 Section 8111
• Date: 10/1/2003
• Type: Title 10
• Topics: N/A

GEIS Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2003

Annual report for the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System

Initial Management of Irradiated or Radioactively Contaminated Personnel

Provides direction to the Medical Department, civilian medical personnel of the naval services, and Navy and Marine Corps commands for the initial exposure assessment, management, and treatment of individuals who are irradiated or externally or internally radioactively contaminated. References (a) through (d) provide additional guidance.

• Identification #: N/A
• Date: 9/26/2003
• Type: Instructions
• Topics: N/A