05-15697. Meeting of the Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel

AGENCY:

Department of Defense, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs).

ACTION:

Notice of meeting; Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel.

SUMMARY:

This notice announces a meeting of the Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel. The panel will review and comment on recommendations made to the Director, TRICARE Management Activity, by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee regarding the Uniform Formulary. The meeting will be open to the public. Seating is limited and will be provided only to the first 220 people signing in. All persons must sign in legibly. Notice of this meeting is required under the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

DATES:

Wednesday, September 28, 2005, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ADDRESSES:

Naval Heritage Center Theater, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Rich Martel, TRICARE Management Activity, Pharmacy Operations, Beneficiary Advisory Panel, Suite 810, 5111 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041, telephone [phone] ext. 3672, fax [phone], or e-mail at [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel will only review and comment on the development of the Uniform Formulary as reflected in the recommendations of the DoD Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee coming out of that body's meeting in August 2005. The P&T Committee information and subject matter concerning drug classes reviewed for that meeting are available at http://pec.ha.osd.mil. Any private citizen is permitted to file a written statement with the advisory panel. Statements must be submitted electronically to [e-mail] no later than September 21, 2005. Any private citizen is permitted to speak at the Beneficiary Advisory Panel meeting, time permitting. One hour will be reserved for public comments, and speaking times will be assigned only to the first twelve citizens to sign up at the meeting, on a first-come, first-served basis. The amount of time allocated to a speaker will not exceed five minutes.

Dated: August 3, 2005.

Jeannette Owings-Ballard,

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.