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DOD and VA Health Care: Jointly Buying and Mailing Out Pharmaceuticals Could Save Millions of Dollars

T-HEHS-00-121 Published: May 25, 2000. Publicly Released: May 25, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed what the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DOD) have done and what more they could do to reduce drug prices and dispensing costs, focusing on the: (1) extent of joint DOD and VA drug contracting thus far and the prospects for further contracting; (2) prospects of DOD using VA's consolidated mail outpatient pharmacy (CMOP) centers to handle its hospital outpatient pharmacy refill workload; and (3) possible need for measures to facilitate such joint actions to bring about further improvements.

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Cost effectiveness analysisDrugsFederal procurementHealth care cost controlHealth care servicesInteragency relationsJoint venturesPharmaceutical industryProcurement planningVeterans