Key Takeaways:

1. Meeting her physician collaborators and getting her first "yes."
2. Starting with AWVs and creating a process for integrating consultant pharmacists into the practice to create a valuable ROI.
3. Being the "clinical coordinator" of the practice who is involved with implementing new services and programs.

Elevate Podcast Show Notes

Resources:

Medicare Learning Network homepage

Pharmacy Quality Solutions

EQuiPP.org

Key Takeaways:

1. How Ashley helps providers with managing diabetic patients.
2. The ability to use telehealth platforms to reach more rural patients.
3. How pharmacists can impact pay-for-performance models by offering quality-focused services.

Elevate Podcast Show Notes

Resources:

Medicare Learning Network homepage

Pharmacy Quality Solutions

EQuiPP.org

Key Takeaways:

• Changes to the DSMT which allows credentialed staff to provide care without requiring a CDE.
• How pharmacists can find resources on impacting quality measures, billing codes and new opportunities through professional conferences and affiliations (Blair:  I also think joining the Pharmapreneur Academy is a good option, but I may be biased!)
• Tips on starting conversations with providers about pharmacist-led clinical services.
• Online education and group coaching program opportunities for pharmacists to be able to scale their patient reach.

Elevate Podcast Show Notes

Resources:

Medicare Learning Network homepage

Pharmacy Quality Solutions

EQuiPP.org

Key Takeaways:

• How to create opportunities for yourself as an independent consultant in a FQHC.
• Creative ways to justify and fund pharmacist-led clinical services.
• Barriers to dispensing naloxone in the community pharmacy setting and how Kate's team helped to overcome those barriers.

Elevate Podcast Show Notes

Resources:

Medicare Learning Network homepage

Pharmacy Quality Solutions

EQuiPP.org

Key Takeaways:

• Partnering with Medicaid and private party payers through credentialing and contracts.
• In-home medication coaching on referral through the state's DSHS and the local Area Agency on Aging.
• Challenges of gathering patient data in order to identify and quantify the impact of pharmacist interventions on patient outcomes and healthcare costs.
• Focusing on marketing pharmacist-led clinical services to other healthcare stakeholders and getting in front of community members using local media.

Keys to success for the Pharmapreneur: stay adaptable, prepare for potential pivots and don't fear failure.

Elevate Podcast Show Notes

Resources:

Medicare Learning Network homepage

Pharmacy Quality Solutions

EQuiPP.org

Key Takeaways:

• How pharmacogenomic testing can help optimize medication therapy and target therapy.
• What a "normal day" looks like for a clinical consultant for a pharmacist practicing under 4 different physicians.
• The results she is getting for her physicians in the way of improving productivity and outcomes.
• Why physicians feel PGx testing was a valuable service for clinical pharmacists to provide.

Elevate Podcast Show Notes

Resources:

Medicare Learning Network homepage

Pharmacy Quality Solutions

EQuiPP.org

Key Takeaways:

• How payers are holding physicians accountable for patient adherence in three targeted disease states and why adherence weight makes up a majority of STAR ratings points
• The opportunity community pharmacy owners and consultant pharmacists have to step in and help physicians achieve their adherence goals
• Ideas about how a consultant can approach providers in order to offer medication adherence programs and support

Elevate Podcast Show Notes

Resources:

Medicare Learning Network homepage

Pharmacy Quality Solutions

EQuiPP.org

Today I'm sharing my 2017 Summit interview with Nick Dorich of Pharmacy Quality Solutions.  

Tune in as Nick shares:

• What medication-related quality measures are and why they are important
• Goals of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance and how they are involved in identifying quality measures
• How to utilize the EQuIPP dashboard to improve patient care and impact measure performance

Learn more about PQS and sign up for the EQuIPP dashboard on the website, Elevate Podcast Show Notes

Resources:

Medicare Learning Network homepage

Pharmacy Quality Solutions

EQuiPP.org

Join us as we discuss

• the evolution of clinical pharmacy services and the impact on MACRA
• How to make ccm a viable business model
• And why pharmacists can and should be billing more than 99211 for incident to visits.

Elevate Podcast Show Notes

Resources:

Medicare Learning Network homepage