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Under this Year 5 program renewal with a national payer, CPESN Wyoming pharmacies provide enhanced Medication Therapy Management and safety reviews for Medicare Part D patients at high risk for adverse drug events. The goal is to demonstrate a positive impact on medical spend directly tied to pharmacist interventions.

In this Payer perspective, Troy Medicare Co-Founder and Chief Pharmacy Officer, describes the benefits of working with community pharmacists in the CPESN North Carolina network. Pharmacies help manage COPD, diabetes and congestive heart failure patients.

Community pharmacists provide flu, pneumonia, and shingles vaccines to Medicaid, Medicare, and Commerical members of a large regional health plan under a contract with the Pennsylvania Pharmacists Care Network (PPCN).

Todd Brown describes how CPESN Massachusetts pharmacists work with a large community-based healthcare system to close identified gaps in care, provide medication sychronication, and adherence support to Medicaid dually-eligible and Medicare patients.

Josh Orhtman with South Dakota CPESN describes a pilot program for remote monitoring for Medicare beneficiaries. Patients heart failure, diabetes, hypertension receive blood pressure monitors, scales, diabetic testing supplies. Pharmacies and physician teams receive health status readings via cellular signals from the patients' in-home monitoring devices.

CPESN® North Carolina pharmacist Tori Grooms shares her network's success with a large MCO through conducting patient outreach to complete Medication Therapy Managament reviews for health plan identified Medicare patients.

Pennsylvania Pharmacists Care Network Executive Director Stephanie McGrath shares her network's success providing Comprehensive Medication Reviews for patients qualifying under Medicaid and Medicare, or dual eligible patients.

CPESN® Texas luminary Ben McNabb, owner of Love Oak Pharmacy, describes his network's success implementing a Medicare Managed Care pilot program. Twelve pharmacies statewide provide medication adherence and enhanced services focusing on diabetes, asthma, and depression.