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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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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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We’d like to introduce you to Dr. Matthew McClure. Our first two interviews – Dr. Amy Panza and Dr. Blair Thielemier – focused on established pharmacists and their new, creative practice models. In this interview, we asked Dr. McClure to
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We’ve had the opportunity to meet pharmacists from all over the United States in our role as Executive Staff of the state association for over 20 years. Hundreds have transited through working committees and events; many have remained friends through
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
Read moreI’ve been following pharmacy practice in Colorado for over 40 years. From the outside as a friend, spouse and consumer. In observing business practices, legislative process, pharmacists’ positioning themselves as health-care providers and the evolution of pharmacy school programs, state
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