============================================================================= Run Date: AUG 28, 2003 Designation: PSO*7*145 Package : PSO - OUTPATIENT PHARMACY Priority: EMERGENCY Version : 7 SEQ #131 Status: Released Compliance Date: AUG 30, 2003 ============================================================================= Associated patches: (v)DG*5.3*389 <<= must be installed BEFORE `PSO*7*145' (v)SD*5.3*263 <<= must be installed BEFORE `PSO*7*145' Subject: TRANSITIONAL PHARMACY BENEFIT PROJECT - PHASE I Category: - Routine - Data Dictionary - Enhancement () - Informational - Other Description: ============ This is the Phase I patch of the Transitional Pharmacy Benefit Project (TPB). This project provides functionality for the "Medication Prescribed by Non-VA Physicians" to accommodate the Veterans Health Administration (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. To determine eligibility, a patient must meet the following criteria: 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 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. This patch is being sent out as a combined build, along with patch SD*5.3*300. Outpatient Pharmacy will provide the following functionality in this patch: 1. A Post-Install routine will scan through the PATIENT file (#2) and the SD WAIT LIST file (#409.3), and will populate the new Outpatient Pharmacy TPB ELIGIBILITY file (#52.91) with patients eligible for the Transitional Pharmacy Benefit. Patients will either be entered into the file as eligible, or ineligible. If they are entered into the file as ineligible, an exclusion reason will also be entered into the file. Please refer to the documentation for more details. The average run time of the Post-Install at the test sites was 1 hour. 2. The following new options are provided in this patch: a. A new report option, TPB Patient Report [PSO TPB PATIENT REPORT], will be provided to display the patients in the TPB ELIGIBILITY file (#52.91). Various sort criteria are provided. b. The Transitional Pharmacy Benefit Patient Enter/Edit [PSO TPB PATIENT ENTER/EDIT] option will allow sites to add new patients, and edit existing patients. Note: This option will be set initially to "Out of Order", until the post-install runs to completion. c. The TPB Institution Letter Enter/Edit [PSO TPB INSTITUTION LETTERS] option allows the user to edit each TPB institution's information elements that are to be printed on the letters to be sent to the patients. d. The Report TPB Patients Letters Printed/NOT Printed [PSO TPB LETTERS PRINTED REPORT] option provides the user the ability to generate a report of patients' letters printed or not printed. e. The Print TPB Patient Letter(s) [PSO TPB PRINT LETTERS] option provides the ability to print TPB letters to be sent to patients. KIDS Build and Documentation Retrieval: ====================================================== The KIDS Build and VISTA documentation are available on the ANONYMOUS.SOFTWARE directory at one of the following Office of Information (OI) Field Offices. Sites may retrieve documentation in one of the following ways: (1) The preferred method is to FTP the files from download.vista.med.va.gov, which will transmit the files from the first available FTP server. (2) Sites may also elect to retrieve documentation directly from a specific server as follows: Albany ftp.fo-albany.med.va.gov Hines ftp.fo-hines.med.va.gov Salt Lake City ftp.fo-slc.med.va.gov The software distribution includes: FILE NAMES DESCRIPTION PSO_TPB_ELIGIBILITY_1_0.KID KIDS Build PSO_7_P145_IG.PDF Installation Guide PSO_7_UM_R0803.PDF User Manual PSO_7_P145_UM_CP.PDF User Manual Change Page Document PSO_7_TM_R0803.PDF Technical Manual PSO_7_P145_TM_CP.PDF Technical Manual Change Page Document PSO_7_P145_RN.PDF Release Notes (3) Documentation can also be retrieved from VISTA Documentation Library (VDL) on the Internet at the following address, http://www.va.gov/vdl. Associated NOISs: ================ N/A Test Sites: =========== Altoona, PA Biloxi, MS Erie, PA Fayetteville, AR Long Beach, CA Minneapolis, MN North Florida/South Georgia HCS Tampa, FL Upstate New York HCS West Palm Beach, FL Routine Summary: ================ The second line now reads as follows: ;;7.0;OUTPATIENT PHARMACY;**[patch list]**;DEC 1997 CHECK^XTSUMBLD results: Routine Before Patch After Patch Patch List ============================================================== PSO145PS N/A 1131977 145 PSOEN145 N/A 6851368 145 PSOTPCEE N/A 4454406 145 PSOTPCL N/A 8927095 145 PSOTPCLP N/A 14371439 145 PSOTPCLR N/A 4632895 145 PSOTPCLW N/A 15934654 145 PSOTPCRP N/A 28012477 145 PSOTPCRX N/A 24793891 145 PSOTPCUL N/A 76885 145 PSOTPPOS N/A 33724697 145 Routine Information: ==================== Routine Name: - PSOTPCEE Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSO145PS Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSOTPCL Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSOTPCLP Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSOTPCLR Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSOTPCLW Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSOTPCRP Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSOTPCRX Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSOTPCUL Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSOTPPOS Routine Checksum: Routine Name: - PSOEN145 Routine Checksum: ============================================================================= User Information: Entered By : ANWER,MOHAMED Date Entered : JUN 19, 2003 Completed By: FARMER,LINDA Date Completed: AUG 27, 2003 Released By : BARRON,LUANNE Date Released : AUG 28, 2003 ============================================================================= Packman Mail Message: ===================== No routines included