The shift from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-value model in pharmacy means an increased emphasis on clinical outcomes.
Morristown Medical Center’s area-based pharmacist program leads to an increase in direct patient contact and opportunities for interventions.
PARP inhibitors are novel therapies with indication focused on ovarian cancer; however, new agents are being studied for other cancers as well.
Pharma companies struggle to find the right balance between rigid quality systems and risk-based flexible quality systems.
CMS Interim Final Rule on mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for all facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid potentially impacts pharmacies that provide services under a contract or arrangement with these facilities.
A value-based benefit design program for prescription medications for asthma, hypertension, and diabetes could result in increased prescription use and decreased healthcare utilization and costs.
At the time of writing, Dr. Striker was a psychiatry pharmacy resident at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), a pharmacist at Huron Hospital, and a relief pharmacist with Target Pharmacy. Dr. Fuller is a clinical pharmacy specialist in psychiatry at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC, a clinical pharmacy specialist in psychiatry with Lexi-Comp Inc, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, and an adjunct associate professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Toledo.
The FDA approved Brilinta (ticagrelor) for reducing the rate of thrombotic cardiovascular events in patients with acute coronary syndrome when taken with aspirin.
To truly become the best versions of ourselves, it is important to constantly seek challenges that expand our personal limits and horizons.
Few drugs are available to address cognitive decline, but dietary changes, mental and physical activity, and social engagement can all help.
The influence of mental illness on adherence among patients who should be taking warfarin is not well understood.
The proportion of Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is projected to increase almost 2-fold over the next couple of decades due to size of the Baby Boom generation compared with the total US population.
If you are either seeking employment or want to move forward with your career, understanding the consequences of professional ghosting is a must in 2020.
Specialty medications also are the fastest growing cost component of total health care costs.
Fosfomycin (Monurol) is an antibiotic that uses a unique mechanism of action to establish its bactericidal activity.
The 340B drug pricing program was enacted in 1992.
Therapeutic interchange from donepezil to galantamine extended-release: a 3-month analysis.
Health care reform and the increasing pipeline of specialty have created a "perfect storm" of significant business and financial impacts to patients, insurers, health care providers, manufacturers, and pharmacies.
Medicare Part D plans can change their cost-sharing structure and formularies every year. As such, beneficiaries should annually reevaluate plan offerings to minimize their out-of-pocket costs.
In recent years, career options for pharmacists have grown beyond the traditional settings of retail drugstores and hospitals.
In this retrospective chart review, patients with hepatitis C had a sustained virologic response with either dual or triple therapy.
A qualitative survey and quantitative database analysis of US payers indicated that determining whether they receive value for their expenditures involves substantial challenges.
The study found no mean difference in all-cause healthcare costs for patients with newly diagnosed nonvalvular atrial fibrillation initiating treatment with dabigatran versus warfarin.
The changes that the Affordable Care Act has brought to the practice of pharmacy may not be well known.
Fear of adverse drug events often influences adherence decisions.
Clinical outcomes have different meanings among specialty pharmacy stakeholders.
Throughout the pandemic, pharmacists have played a critical role in the COVID-19 response in several ways
What characteristics of RA treatments possibly connect to COVID-19 treatment?