$$$ for pharmacists’ services? Here’s how!

“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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What do you mean”Fix the Glitch”?

What do you mean “Fix the Glitch”? The title of our 5/13/2018 blog post had a lot of people scratching their heads. What exactly does it mean? The Value Pharmacists’  “Fix the Glitch” post announced that the Colorado legislature passed

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Proposed Pharmacy Rules Strike the Word “Prescribe”: An Update on Prescriber Status in Colorado

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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Enhancing Services in a Community Pharmacy

Lucas Smith, Pharm.D.,  has been an active presence in Colorado pharmacy for several years. We met him, and worked together on student memberships in the Colorado Pharmacists Society, when he served as NCPA student chapter president at the University of Colorado

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Pharmacist Prescribing in Colorado – Analysis & Status

We’re predicting there will be changes in the near future and will be updating the status on “pharmacist prescribing in Colorado” as events warrant. (from our email series on Pharmacist Prescribing in Colorado) June 2018 What do you mean “Fix

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Considering Collaborative Practice? Consider CU’s Apothecary!

Susan Mead, Pharm.D., Director of The Apothecary at the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy, manages the university’s pharmacies in Boulder, Colorado including the Wardenburg Health Center Apothecary and the Boulder Health Center Pharmacy. Her pharmacies serve primarily CU students, staff

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7 Things You Need to Know about Statewide Protocols

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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Concentrating on My Prescriptions?

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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2017 Prospects – A View from 12,605ft

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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What Is Enhanced MTM?

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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