The VA/DoD Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidemia for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction has created clinical practice guidelines that have been officially adopted by VA. The new guidelines are substantially different than previous guidelines, and arguably somewhat more complicated. Complicating matters somewhat, the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology passed similar, but not identical, guidelines one year earlier and VA is also planning to adopt HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) performance measures for managing dyslipidemia, which are also similar, but not identical to the VA guidelines. Changing recommendations plus this misalignment - two guidelines, one performance measure, none identical or perfectly-understood - could create confusion and unclear guidance for practitioners.