Advocacy
Push to Retain Skilled Nurses at Military Facilities Moves Forward in NDAA
The MOAA-backed provision would help strengthen staffing as these facilities look to add patients.
As MOAA’s Director of Government Relations for Health Affairs, Karen Ruedisueli advocates for legislation and policy to protect the uniformed services health care benefit, including TRICARE and the direct care system of military hospitals and clinics. She builds relationships on Capitol Hill and with DoD leaders, TRICARE contractors, and fellow advocates to advance solutions to Military Health System issues and ensure transparency and accountability in policy implementation. She also advises MOAA’s Health Care Board Committee.
The MOAA-backed provision would help strengthen staffing as these facilities look to add patients.
Home delivery is designed to streamline the prescription process, but problems can arise.
MOAA has worked to secure the benefit for servicemembers, who’ll be able to save on medical expenses.
A MOAA-supported requirement in both House and Senate report language would enhance oversight of the new contract.
A recent roundtable outside Washington, D.C., offered a chance for stakeholders to voice their concerns.
The joint July event marked the first in-person gathering of its kind in five years.