The PEC Vision

The Department of Defense (DoD) PharmacoEconomic Center (PEC) is a customer oriented Center of Excellence implementing recognized state of the art pharmacoeconomic analysis for the purpose of improving readiness by increasing value, quality, and access to medical care and pharmacotherapy within the available resources of the Military Health System (MHS).

The PEC Mission

To improve the clinical, economic, and humanistic outcomes of drug therapy in support of the readiness and managed healthcare missions of the MHS.

PEC Activities


Pharmacoeconomic Analysis - The PEC monitors drug usage and cost trends and performs pharmacoeconomic analyses to support DoD formulary management, national pharmaceutical contracts, and clinical practice guidelines.

DoD Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T) Committee Support - The PEC provides extensive administrative and technical support for the DoD P&T Committee, which manages the DoD Basic Core Formulary (BCF) and the Mail Order Pharmacy Formulary.

The Pharmacy Operations Center (POC) - The POC supports users of the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service, a centralized prescription data repository that provides a single, comprehensive patient drug profile for DoD beneficiaries across the Military Health System.

Information Systems - The PEC helps in the development and management of information systems that support the provision of drug therapy and evaluation of the pharmacy benefit.

Pharmaceutical Contracts - The PEC works with the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia & the VA Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic Health Group and National Acquisition Center to establish national pharmaceutical contracts.

Clinical Practice Guidelines - The PEC works with the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline Workgroup to formulate the drug therapy components of clinical practice guidelines and associated metrics.

The PEC provides formulary management documents, presentations, and other resources to educate health care providers and other pharmacy benefit stakeholders about cost-effective drug therapy.

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10/20/09

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