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"The rules exist for your safety and that of your crew." Al Carter is leader of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. Sifting through 50 ways to do anything is methodical and detail-oriented work.  Finding consistency and pushing for continuity is even worse. Listen in to Al Carter's story and what he fights for pharmacy every day. 

Even prior to the pandemic, staffing in nursing homes and the LTC space was struggling, particularly with nurse assistants and pharmacy technicians.  Where does it stand now?  Are there solutions on the horizon?

Chad fancies himself as a quintessential consultant pharmacist but no one speaks as passionately and eloquently on consulting pharmacy like Will Hallett. Join Tom and Chad as they explore how Will got here and why he is so motivated to push the role of the pharmacist in older adult medicine.

The public, the government and the nursing homes all asked pharmacists to vaccinate during the pandemic and flexibilities were granted on a national scale to clear the path for pharmacists to vaccinate and vaccinate they did. Now as the pandemic winds downs, opportunity exists for a better way forward. Join special guest Chad Kodiak who has mastered this latest opportunity for pharmacy in LTC.

Short Cycle reimbursement was started with the rollout of Affordable Care Act.  The goal was to incentivize long term care pharmacies to dispense medications in short cycle to control cost and decrease waste.  Short Cycle benefits the nursing home customer but is also a revenue growth strategy  pharmacies.

"This Iowa farm boy will play for awhile but, in the end it sounds like he's searching for the truth." TJ Griffin stands out in LTC pharmacy... maybe out in a field... but a field of pharmacy dreams. We explore how he got here and why he fights so hard for his profession.

Since the dawning of managed care, our health care system started fighting with itself between quality care and business efficiency. The two philosophies struggle to coexist. PBMs are the tip of the spear and represents the fiercest battle in the dollars vs. lives war.

It started with Omnicare in the 1990s and today it is groups like Amazon. LTC

pharmacy has always eyed the end of itself and major shifts in health care delivery drive those feelings of impending doom. Demystifying these concerns, recognizing that they are actually signs of a healthy and positive industry direction is where focus should be.

Standing on the shoulders of giants, today's LTC pharmacists fight for clinical

services and access to patients that they have become experts at managing. Providing reimbursable services through vaccinations, relationships with physicians at aiming at medically complex older adults outside nursing homes and assisted living centers dominates ASCP's policy and legislative agenda.