Physical Well-Being
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DoD Needs to Better Monitor Tricare Care Providers: Report
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Pentagon officials need to do more to make sure civilian health care providers are giving military families good care, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The report, released Sept. 17, found that while military health care officials have created a way to monitor whether families and troops are getting quality care from military treatment facilities, those same benchmarks aren't applied to community-based providers.
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Study Finds More Women than Men Veterans with Chronic Pain Use Therapies Like Yoga and Acupuncture
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AMHERST, Mass. – A recent major shift in practice by the Veterans Health Administration (VA) now means that complementary and integrative health (CIH) therapies such as meditation, yoga and acupuncture are increasingly being offered to VA patients as non-drug approaches for pain management and related conditions, says Elizabeth Evans, an epidemiology researcher in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Tricare Updates Rules to Address Concerns About Access to Care
Type of content: News
Tricare officials on Thursday announced an addition to a list of circumstances under which users will be permitted to switch plans after a new rule takes effect late this year.
Currently, military families enrolled in Tricare Select or Tricare Prime can change plans for any reason.
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VA Working to Slash Opioid Use Amid New Research on Painkiller Alternatives
Type of content: News
The VA’s efforts to cut prescription rates for opioids have been backed up by encouraging new research showing success for the use of non-opioid alternatives in the treatment of some types of chronic pain.
"Many people do have expectations that opioids are just amazingly effective for pain. You know, it turns out that's probably not true," said Dr. Erin Krebs, a general internist and researcher at the Minneapolis VA Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research.
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Millions of military retirees and families must act soon to get new dental, vision coverage
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Military retirees have new options for dental and vision care starting Jan. 1, but the changes won’t be automatic. To remain covered, they’ll have to make some decisions and take specific action beginning Nov. 12.
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Report: VA may have mishandled thousands of sexual assault cases
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WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs officials may have improperly denied benefits to thousands of military sexual assault victims in recent years due to paperwork and procedural mistakes, according to a department inspector general report released Tuesday.
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VA, Walgreens Partner To Coordinate Veterans' Prescriptions
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its partnership with Walgreens Boots Alliance to better coordinate medication and immunization histories of the nation’s veterans.
The new "VA-Walgreens exchange” enables VA doctors to “easily view medications directly that are prescribed to VA-enrolled patients by community providers and filled at Walgreens pharmacies.”
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Study: Short supply of centers impacts transplant rates for veterans
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In most cases, U.S. veterans are less likely to get a kidney transplant compared to individuals with Medicare or private insurance, according to a recently published study.
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More than 130,000 injured vets due big tax refunds because of computer glitch
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More than 130,000 U.S. veterans who were released from service due to injuries sustained in combat are due substantial federal income tax refunds because of a Department of Defense error that stretched on for decades.
For 25 years, between 1991 and 2016, a computer glitch at the agency caused non-taxable disability severance payments to be subject to income taxes, a Defense Department official told CBS MoneyWatch. The government is now trying to help veterans or their survivors recover these old overpayments, each of which is expected to result in refunds of $1,750 or more.
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More cancer treatment options opening to veterans thanks to new partnership
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WASHINGTON — Veterans battling cancer could have easier access to cutting-edge treatments and experimental trials under a new partnership between the Department of Veterans Affairs and National Cancer Institute announced Tuesday.
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