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This expansion of their role goes beyond traditional dispensing duties, positioning pharmacists as an essential bridge between patients and the broader health care system.
The pharmacist integration model filled in gaps in care that appeared to positively affect MIPS and PCMH quality measures.
35 presentations of research on education, methodology, enterprise and industry at four-day conference
Desselle has been following and researching some of the pharmacy-related initiatives in California this year on behalf of lobbyists. He explained that while medical services are widely viewed as an inelastic good — meaning their price doesn’t change with market fluctuations since they’re considered to be a necessity — prescription drugs are highly elastic — meaning their cost can increase as the market changes. When copays or deductibles increase due to high elasticity of demand, he explained, patients unable to afford their medications often ration them — known as “nonadhere...
Senior Editor A paper funded by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores was recently honored by the American Pharmacist Association as one of the recipients of a 2021APhA Academy of Pharmaceutical Research & Science Award. The paper, “Exploring the implementation of a novel optimizing care model in the community pharmacy setting” is receiving APhA’s 2021 Wiederholt Prize for Best Published Papers Award for Economic, Social, and Administrative Sciences. Authored by Kenneth Hohmeier and Shane Desselle, the paper is part of the NACDS Optimizing Care Program, a model wh...