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WASHINGTON, DC – The NBC News story,
“Overworked, understaffed: Pharmacists say industry in crisis puts patient safety at risk,” is a compelling demonstration of the need for fundamental payment reform in pharmacy, according to Scott J. Knoer, executive vice president and chief executive officer of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).
“The answer is payment reform,” said Dr. Knoer, who was chief pharmacy officer at the Cleveland Clinic for 11 years before joining APhA as CEO in 2020. “The pharmacy payment model of paying for the filling of prescriptions is broken, leading to the imposition of productivity and efficiency metrics that take precedence over almost anything else. As the pharmacists in the story state, this creates a set of conditions where patient safety being terribly compromised.
Overworked, understaffed: Pharmacists say industry is in crisis, putting patient safety at risk Adiel Kaplan and Vicky Nguyen and Mary Godie © Provided by NBC News
From the moment Marilyn Jerominski walks into her pharmacy every morning, her time is in demand. As pharmacy manager of a busy 24-hour Walgreens in Palm Desert, California, she is responsible for the safety and accuracy of the thousands of prescriptions the store dispenses every week. There s so much stress, Jerominski said. You re not only running to the drive-thru but to the front, to the vaccination station to give a vaccination, then to the phone. . It s almost impossible for any human to keep that momentum day in and out.