CSS HEALTH IS AT AMCP NEXUS 2018
We're in Orlando for AMCP Nexus from October 22 - 25. Stop by to visit at at Booth 508 to talk about what matters to you in the world of MTM. At our booth, you can find: Founder and President,…
ACHIEVING NEW HEIGHTS WITH CMR RATES
As CMS pushes Medicare Part D completion rates to new heights, our team at CSS Health is bringing innovations to meet the challenge. Over the past 18 years, our Clinical Outreach Center has completed hundreds of thousands of CMRs. We are helping…
MEDICARE STAR UPDATE FOR PHARMACY
In early August, Medicare released its - Medicare 2019 Part C & D Star Ratings Technical Notes. The technical notes review the STAR quality measures that will be used to evaluate Medicare plans. This release has some critical information if…
THE POWER OF INFUSING POPULATION HEALTH INTO YOUR MTM PROGRAM
Healthcare plans are demanding more from their MTM programs evolving from a compliance offering to a population health management platform. Today MTM can identify at-risk members, improve outcomes and reduce the costs of care. About this time in 2015, I…
IS IT TIME TO BRING YOUR MTM PROGRAM INHOUSE?
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…
HOW CAN IMPROVED MTM TECHNOLOGY ACHIEVE THE TRIPLE AIM AND GIVE YOU SUPERPOWERS?
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…
AVOIDING ACCIDENTAL CALLS TO RELATIVES OF THE RECENTLY DECEASED
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…
PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF PHARMACIST RUN TRANSITION OF CARE SERVICE
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.…
ARE ACOS PREPARED TO MANAGED MEDICATION QUALITY AND COST
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…
INTEGRATING PHARMACISTS INTO THE PATIENT CENTERED MEDICAL HOME
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…