More and more we hear plans are concerned their MTM programs consume significant resources but do not produce requisite value. Some common complaints we have heard include: My MTM program is just "a CMR generation machine"… I can't tell if…
Medication therapy management has the ability to dramatically change the way healthcare organizations can achieve the triple aim of improved outcomes at lower costs with higher patient satisfaction. Our team at CSS is revamping our platform with new product updates…
If a patient, unfortunately, passes on, it is safe to say that they won't be bothered by a phone call from a pharmacist looking to conduct a medication review. It's also safe to assume that if the pharmacist had known…
A recent article in Innovations in Pharmacy, describes a unique pharmacy based transition of care service. Kowalski et. al. describe a transitions of care collaboration between Streu’s Pharmacy Bay Natural (an independent community pharmacy in Green Bay, WI) and Bellin Hospital.…
BACKGROUND Recentlt Wilks et. al published Optimization of Medication Use at Accountable Care Organizations.The authors studied accountable care organizations' (ACO) perception of how well they have incorporated key components of medication management. THE STUDY This authors conducted a survey…
Recently Intermountain Healthcare (IH) reported on effort to integrate pharmacists in their patient centered medical home (PCMH). IH is an integrated delivery system of 22 hospitals, a medical group with more than 185 ambulatory physician clinics and approximately 1100 primary…
Health and Human Service's Office of Inspector General issued an advisory opinion in December of 2017 indicating that Pharma support of a program to conduct MTM post discharge would not violate anti-kickback rules. The permission was outlined in an advisory…
A post marketing requirement (PMR) is a study or clinical trial that a pharmaceutical company is required by statute or regulation to conduct post approval of a drug product. On December 8, 2017 the FDA released it’s annual report summarizing…
MEDICARE PROPOSALS On November 28th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published “Medicare Program; Contract Year 2019 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Cost Plan, Medicare Fee-for-Service, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs, and the…
Have you ever heard the joke about the guy caught in a flood. To escape the flood he climbs up onto his roof. As the water continues to rise a man on a makeshift raft passes and offers him a…