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“Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. … understanding this amazing world we live in.” Andrew Zimmern May the new year and decade bring you joy and prosperity. With all the best
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CVS Health and Aetna closed their $69 billion merger on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 bringing together one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains with health insurance giant Aetna yet, there are still many unanswered questions. What about antitrust implications? Will this merger reduce healthcare costs?
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Pharmacists have been asking ValuePharmacists “Where do I go to find out how to start a collaborative practice?” Our answer – the CDC’s Advancing Team-Based Care Through Collaborative Practice Agreements: Resource and Implementation Guide for Adding Pharmacists to the Care
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The idea for a blog post with a compilation of (fairly) recent, consumer interest, pharmacy-related topics struck after listening to a local radio personality and remembering the regular newsletters Val wrote while Executive Director of the Colorado Pharmacists Society. So
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A year ago, Value Pharmacists introduced our readers and members to the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN®). The CPESN concept was expanding across the country. At the time of the blog post, CPESNs had launched in 15 states and
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Just 3 months after CVS Health announced its intention to acquire Aetna, Cigna agrees to buy PBM Express Scripts and Albertsons agrees to buy Rite Aid stores. Experts in healthcare are saying these mergers and acquisitions have the potential to
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How can pharmacists increase access to important public health services? The answer – statewide protocols. The term statewide protocol refers to a framework that specifies the conditions under which pharmacists are authorized to prescribe, furnish, or dispense without a prescription
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It happened. Did you hear about it? Or was it totally under your radar? How prepared are you to manage six technicians? What? Manage six technicians? Yup, on May 3, 2017, the allowed technician-pharmacist ratio in Colorado was DOUBLED to
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It is both exciting and rewarding to see pharmacists, pharmacies and the services pharmacists provide mentioned numerous times in the September 28, 2015 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announcement of the Part D Enhanced Medication Therapy Management Model
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In September 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a Part D Enhanced Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Model and began looking for participants in a five year test of this model. The concept of an enhanced medication therapy
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