Bottom of the 9th: Community Pharmacy’s Emerging Role in COVID-19 Treatment

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Uploaded: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 @ 1:00 PM ET It doesn’t get more “frontline” than this. With the Ninth Amendment to the PREP Act, pharmacists and their staff can now provide COVID-19 treatment to patients in their communities. It’s the latest effort to fight the surge in COVID-19 cases across the country. But what does
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Medical Billing Versus Pharmacy Billing: What’s the Difference?

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Reimbursements are falling. DIR fees are on the rise. To survive, more and more pharmacists are beginning to provide clinical care services for their patients. But for pharmacists new to this side of the business, getting paid for those services can prove to be a challenge. There are a lot of differences between pharmacy billing
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Why Pharmacies Should Use the Appointment Based Model

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What is the Appointment-Based Model, or ABM? According to a recent Pharmacy Times article, it’s a care model that allows pharmacists to deliver “high-quality, cost-effective, patient-centered care to meet the demands of a changing health care landscape and ensure the sustainability of community pharmacy practice.” Sign us up. Delving further, it’s exactly what it sounds
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Why Your Pharmacy Should Expand into Patient Care Services

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Today’s patients need more healthcare options. Doctors’ offices are overbooked, and patients can wait months for a simple check-up. And the pandemic is only making matters worse. On the pharmacy side of things, prescription reimbursement rates are falling, and increasing DIR fees are taking bigger chunks of that revenue every day. To survive, pharmacies have
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Why Pharmacies are Shifting Focus to Clinical Care Services

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Community pharmacies are evolving. In his webinar “Care Planning: The Key to Thriving and Surviving,” Mark McCurdy, RPh, said “Don’t try to fit clinical care into your dispensing schedule. Fit dispensing into your clinical care schedule.” Why would he put so much emphasis on clinical care? Because that’s the future of pharmacy. Diversifying to Survive
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Adding a Personal Touch to Prescription Delivery Service

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Prescription delivery programs are gaining traction in the pharmacy industry. While independent pharmacists have been offering home deliveries for years, other players are getting into the game. CVS and Walgreens have recently started offering home delivery for their medications. Both companies charge for the service and typically offer delivery within 1-2 days of ordering, showing
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Medical Billing Solution Must Haves for Every Pharmacist

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Clinical care in pharmacies is hardly a new thing. Pharmacists have been providing care beyond filling prescriptions for as long as the profession has existed. But getting compensated for that care? That’s a recent development. And in order to get paid for providing that care, pharmacies must utilize some kind of medical billing solution.  
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