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The test of the Enhanced Medication Therapy Management (EMTM) Model began January 1, 2017. The EMTM Model seeks to determine whether providing Part D sponsors with additional payment incentives and MTM regulatory flexibilities achieves the key goals of MTM—“optimized therapeutic
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You’ve no doubt heard Do what you love, the money will follow. Are you in love with serving your patients? How often are you fulfilled by doing what you love? Perhaps you find yourself pursuing compensation? Or, are you bogged down
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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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Two colleagues who’d read my blog post summarizing the recently passed legislation recognizing collaborative practice agreements in the Colorado Pharmacy Practice Act were interested in seeing how the actual language in the bill compared to their state’s pharmacy practice act.
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The last day of the 2016 Colorado Legislative Session was May 11, 2016. Value Pharmacists monitored/lobbied 4 bills affecting pharmacy. Although you may reside in a state other than Colorado, these issues could be in your backyard in the not
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As the legislative sessions continue in many states this March, new bills continue to be introduced, existing bills wend their way through the process and special interest lobbyists are busy chatting up the legislators to guide their bill to passage, deny
Read moreWhether you are speaking to a legislator, their aide or another interested party, invariably you will be asked if granting provider status will change your scope of practice. Federal provider status legislation, the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act
Read moreWhen it comes to the explanation of the services pharmacists provide, a guidebook of acronyms needs to be provided to all those involved in these discussions. CDTM (collaborative drug therapy management), MTM (medication therapy management), and CPA (collaborative practice agreements)
Read moreAs a state pharmacy association/society executive, I had the privilege of “belonging” to every national pharmacy organization in the alphabet soup of pharmacy organizations: APhA, ASHP, NACDS, NCPA and ASCP. One of the most beneficial memberships is with the National Alliance of
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