Advocacy, information and resources for the pharmacy profession.
Over 80% of the plans participating in the CMS Enhanced Medication Therapy Management (MTM) model test showed reductions in medical spending! Read more about Enhanced MTM in our post from 2017. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation
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How many times have you heard “pharmacy needs to shift their focus from product to service”? CPESN® USA and the Community Pharmacy Foundation is planning to help pharmacies do just that through the program “Flip the Pharmacy.” Who are these
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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 only way pharmacists will be paid for their medication-related services is if they can document their value.” The Pharmacist eCare Plan should be an excellent tool that pharmacists will be able to use to capture clinical data that payers
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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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Colorado House Bill 2018-1313 has passed the legislature. After final enactment and rules promulgation, pharmacists will be prescribers, under certain circumstances, in Colorado. Hear testimony in support of CO HB18-1313 (begins at ~9.5 minutes and lasts over 20 minutes).
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Many of you have been requesting an update on prescriber status of pharmacists in Colorado since our blog post “Pharmacist Prescribing in Colorado – Analysis and Status” in which we asked: Could it be that all the reports in the
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If you haven’t heard, you may have a CPESN pharmacy coming to a neighborhood near you. What is CPESN you ask? It could be one of the more important acronyms to add to your alphabet soup vocabulary of acronyms –
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My thoughts recently have revolved around the practice of pharmacy and the possibility of expanding health-care services offered to me, as a patient, by my pharmacist. What do I want my pharmacist to do for me? Pharmacists I know, or have
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Better integration of pharmacists into the Medicare Part D MTM program is one of the objectives of the CMS Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Part D Enhanced Medication Therapy Management Model. This new model is designed to test whether high
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