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Office of the Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)/TRICARE Management Activity

Mon, Nov 20 2006 11:00:00 GMT

This notice is to advise interested parties of a Military Health System (MHS) demonstration project entitled TRICARE Provider Reimbursement Demonstration Project for the State of Alaska. The delivery of health care services in the State of Alaska represents a unique situation that cannot be addressed fully by strictly applying the same reimbursement rules that apply to TRICARE programs in the other 49 states without some modification. Typically, provider payments are the same as under Medicare, unless the Department has taken specific action to increase payment rates in response to a particular, severe access problem in a location. Under this demonstration, payment rates for physicians and other noninstitutional individual professional providers in the State of Alaska will be set at a rate higher than the Medicare rate. The demonstration project will test the effect of this change on provider participation in TRICARE, beneficiary access to care, cost of health care services, military medical r

Meeting of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee

Mon, Nov 20 2006 11:00:00 GMT

The Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee will meet in closed session on December 14, 2006 from 0800 hrs until 1830 and December 15, 2006 from 0800 hrs until 1600 at the Pentagon. The purpose of the meeting is to provide the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy with independent, informed advice on major matters of defense policy. The Board will hold classified discussions on national security matters.

In accordance with Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law No. 92463, as amended [5 U.S.C. App II (1982)], it has been determined that this meeting concerns matters listed in 5 U.S.C. 552B(c)(1)(1982), and that accordingly this meeting will be closed to the public.

Dated: November 13, 2006.
C.R. Choate,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense. [FR Doc. 069271 Filed 111706; 8:45 am]
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Meeting of the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS)

Mon, Nov 20 2006 11:00:00 GMT

Pursuant to Section 10(a), Public Law 92-463, as amended, notice is hereby given of a forthcoming meeting of the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS). The purpose of the Committee meeting is to introduce new members and conduct orientation training. The meeting is open to the public, subject to the availability of space.

Interested persons may submit a written statement for consideration by the Committee and make an oral presentation of such. Persons desiring to make an oral presentation or submit a written statement to the Committee must notify the point of contact listed
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below no later than 5 p.m., 27 November 2006. Oral presentations by members of the public will be permitted only on Monday, 4 December 2006 from 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. before the full Committee. Presentations will be limited to two minutes. Number of oral presentations to be made will depend on the number of requests received from members of the public. Each person desiring