Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from GTMRx!
“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” –Rainer Maria Rilke In observance of the holidays, our office will be closed Saturday, Dec. 24 - Tuesday, Jan. 3.
Press Release | GTMRx Shares New Report on Value of Implementing and Integrating Comprehensive Medication Management in Team-Based Care
GTMRx Shares New Report on Value of Implementing and Integrating Comprehensive Medication Management in Team-Based Care Organization of Key Health Care Stakeholders Releases Third Annual Evidence Document, 11th Guidance Document for 2022 Tysons Corner, VA — December 15, 2022 — Today, The…
News Brief | December 13, 2022 | Proposed rule would reform prior authorization
Practice Transformation MyChart message fees passed on to patient? Cleveland Clinic began billing for certain Epic MyChart messages in November; now, at least seven other health systems have followed suit. But, as Becker’s Hospital Review reports, what remains uncertain is how long…
News Brief | November 7, 2022 | CMS makes big changes to Medicare ACOs
Practice Transformation Americans give health care cost and equity low scores A plurality of Americans gives the U.S. health care system overall a poor or failing grade, and most rank affordability and equity the same way, according to the West Health-Gallup…
News Brief | November 1, 2022 | Bodenheimer: Fund primary care, add nurses and pharmacists to the team
Practice Transformation Ads: direct consumer to prescriber It’s not only patients and providers who benefit from online prescribing; so do a growing number of drug companies. They connect people scrolling their sites with a virtual prescriber. This “powerful mashup” of…
News Brief | October 24, 2022 | Providers still leaving the profession, report finds
Practice Transformation AMA to take on senior polypharmacy Following up on recommendations from the AMA Senior Physicians Section, AMA delegates recently adopted “Reducing Polypharmacy as a Significant Contributor to Senior Morbidity.” It directs the AMA to work with appropriate stakeholders such…
October 2022 Policy Update: ERIC & GTMRx’s PBM Transparency Advocacy Campaign
From the desk of James Gelfand, JD, President, ERIC (ERISA Industry Committee), GTMRx Advocacy Partner October 14, 2022 After a short September of work in Congress, House and Senate members are once again back at home, campaigning in advance of the…
Blog | Overcoming turnover, transitions and a troubled system: Making CMM work in long-term care
Overcoming turnover, transitions and a troubled system: Making CMM work in long-term care By Mark Gerdes, RPh, director of Avera long-term care pharmacy for Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center; and Anna Meyer, PharmD, clinical pharmacy supervisor for the…
News Brief | October 11, 2022 | OIG: $18B wasted on drugs with no proof of value
Practice Transformation Team-based care begins with the patient In a Pharmacy Times interview, Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, MACP, FRCP, Executive Physician Advisor, GTMRx Institute, discussed the importance of collaboration among physicians, other clinicians and pharmacists in delivering comprehensive medication management. “It starts with…
Blog | Credible, current and accessible: Finding the drug data to get the medications right
Credible, current and accessible: Finding the drug data to get the medications right By Patrick Reilly, CEO of phactMI September 28, 2022 To get the medications right, care teams need access to the most current, evidence-based information about those medications—ideally,…
