Practice Transformation Diabetes care needs to be team-based A multidisciplinary team of health care professionals including physicians, nurses, dietitians and pharmacists can provide comprehensive diabetes care and management for patients, writes Susan Cornell, PharmD, of the Chicago College of Pharmacy…
Practice Transformation Increased use of generics, biosimilars help control costs Biosimilars and generic drugs may slow drug cost growth in 2022, Modern Healthcare reports. Drug prices only increased 1.9% in 2021, partly due to new biosimilars and generics, according to an American…
Get the Medications Right Institute marks three years of impact in health care Growing coalition calls for broad adoption of comprehensive medication management as an advanced primary care strategy Tysons Corner, Va., April 20, 2022 – The Get the Medications…
Practice Transformation Before prescribing, plan on deprescribing opioids Before prescribing opioids, physicians should—in collaboration with the patient--develop a deprescribing plan, argues Jason Doctor, PhD, of the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. It would lay out a specific…
Practice Transformation Physicians lack time, support to address SDOH Most (61%) of physicians say they have little or no time to address their patient’s social determinants of health (SDOH), according to a new survey from The Physicians Foundation. Yet, roughly…
Practice Transformation CMM a win-win for seniors Older adults are particularly vulnerable to drug therapy problems. They are also especially hard hit by social isolation. Comprehensive medication management offers a solution to both, writes Karmen L. Stephens, PharmD, BCGP. “Undoubtedly,…
Julie Groppi, PharmD, FASHP PBM Assistant Chief Consultant for Clinical Pharmacy Practice and Policy Veterans Health Administration, VA Central Office April 1, 2022 Spreading the word: New VA web-based resource center shares road-tested insights for integrating clinical pharmacists The Department of…
Practice Transformation Opportunities abound for pharmacist collaboration Opportunities for collaboration between community and health-systems pharmacists abound, according to Tamara A. McCants, PharmD, of Howard University, During her APhA 2022 presentation, she cited several examples, including comprehensive medication management. She also…
Practice Transformation CMMI should support flexible primary care, not FFS To increase the likelihood that models achieve overall cost savings and/or quality improvement, CMMI should test approaches that add flexibility and significantly increase the share of total health care spending…
Practice Transformation Pharmacist-led patient care services + PGX = success, study finds A large implementation of a pharmacogenomics-enriched CMM program led to a reduction of roughly $7,000 per patient for participating Medicare Advantage enrollees. It also led to a positive…
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