PURPOSE The legislative and regulatory issues surrounding the reimbursement of pharmacists for cognitive services are reviewed and billing practices for a pharmacist-physician collaborative drug therapy management service (DTMS) in a family medicine clinic are examined. A case study is offered to illustrate the real-world application of these practices. SUMMARY As regimens of prescription med...

OBJECTIVE To delineate the relationship, including similarities and differences, between medication therapy management (MTM) and contemporary pharmacist-provided services, including patient counseling, disease management, and pharmaceutical care, to facilitate the continued evolution of commonly used language and a standard of practice across geographic areas and practice environments. SUMMAR...

A new test model starting in five regions in 2017 seeks better integration of pharmacists into the Medicare Part D Medication Therapy Management program, which has severely underperformed since the Part D benefit took effect in 2006.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a patient-centered employer-based medication therapy management (MTM) program. DESIGN Randomized controlled study. SETTING Health promotion program at the University of Michigan from June 2009 to December 2011. PARTICIPANTS Employees, retirees, and their dependents taking seven or more prescription medications. INTERVENTION Focus on Medicines (FOM) was a two-visit,...

OBJECTIVE To determine the overall perception and utilization of the pharmacist managed medication therapy management (MTM) clinic services, by healthcare professionals in a large, urban, university medical care setting. METHODS This was a cross-sectional, anonymous survey sent to 195 healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists at The University of Illinois Outpati...

OBJECTIVES To determine the feasibility of a partnership between a community pharmacy and a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) by measuring the impact on office- and patient-level clinical outcomes. SETTING Kroger Pharmacy and a PCMH practice in Cincinnati, OH. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION The Kroger Co. is a large grocery store chain that operates 102 pharmacies in the Cincinnati-Dayton marketin...

The traditional system of providing drug therapy to patients, in which only certain health care professionals are authorized to initiate drug therapy, is under attack at many levels. The processes of drug prescribing, dispensing, administration, monitoring,’ and dosage adjustment, as practiced in this traditional system, occur in a disjointed fashion. that frequently results in avoidable drug-r...

OBJECTIVE Medication therapy management (MTM) has the potential to play an instrumental role in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care. However, previous research has found that Blacks and Hispanics are less likely to be eligible for MTM. The purpose of the current study was to examine the potential effects of MTM eligibility criteria on racial and ethnic disparities in health ou...

OBJECTIVES To determine the impact of a telephone call reminder program provided by a campus-based medication therapy management call center on medication adherence in Medicare Advantage Part D (MAPD) beneficiaries with hypertension. METHODS The reminder call services were offered to eligible MAPD beneficiaries, and they included a live interactive conversation with patients to assess the use...