“Nearly a year after new contractors took over the management of the military’s managed health system, TRICARE is still seeing major transition challenges. In response, defense officials say not only have they issued corrective action orders to the two vendors, they’ve imposed financial penalties on at least one of them…”
“Thomas McCaffery, the administration’s nominee to be the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, told senators Thursday that some of those challenges remain unsolved, 11 months after the new contracts took effect.”
“The Defense Health Agency is exercising some of the tools we have on our contract. We’ve been instituting corrective action plans by which Health Net needs to come back and identify progress to us on a regular basis…”
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Source: DoD imposes financial sanctions on TRICARE contractor amid ongoing transition problems – By Jared Serbu, November 30, 2018. Federal News Network.
