CPESN® North Carolina, COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Program

Joe Moose, CPESN North Carolina luminary, describes how pharmacists helped this large national MCO gather information from dually-eligible Medicare and Medicaid patients on their COVID-19 vaccination status, and understanding of their choices.

Luminary Perspective - The Payer Journey

CPESN® Missouri and USA luminary Tripp Logan describes how he connected the dots on backyard relationships to build a grant-winning partnership in this video highlighting patience and persistence in making the community pharmacy case for quality health service delivery, improved patient care, and overall lower costs.

CPESN® Colorado - Chronic Care Management

Dana Sadowski describes how a Colorado Department of Health grant has provided funding for CPESN Colorado pharmaies to become accredited and begin offering clinical services including Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) and blood pressure monitoring.

CPESN® Hawaii, Brief Med Reviews 65+

Dayna Wong-Otis describes a brief medication review program for the 65+ population funded by Hawaii Medical Services Association (HMSA). Pharmacists look for age-inappropriate medications, duplications, interactions, and findings reported to patient’s primary care physician with recommendations.

CPESN® Minnesota, Medicaid & Medicare

Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services are provided by CPESN Minnesota pharmacies to both Medical Assistance (Medicaid) and MinneaCare patients taking at least one prescription medication to manage a chronic condition. Reviews are conducted face-to-face or via telehealth.

Holston Medical Group, Emergent ACO

A multi-state agreement with Holston Medical Group gives CPESN pharmacists new patient insights with access to patient Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and direct communication with physicians on services they provide to referred patients. CPESN Northeast Tennessee initiated the relationship with HMG which has a presence in TN, VA, NC, SC. Its Emergent ACO also has presence in NE and parts of CA. The program was first rolled out to CPESN pharmacies in NE Tennessee and SW Virginia.

CPESN Hawaii® Home Health Vaccines

CPESN Hawaii® luminary Keri Oyadomari describes how pharmacies in that network provided In-home COVID-19 vaccines to more than ,000 small care homes, group homes, foster homes with 1 to 8 patients. The service was funded through a grant from the state department of health.

CPESN® West Virginia Nalox(ONE) Program

CPESN® West Virginia luminary Gretchen Garofoli describes that network's participation in Nalox(ONE) with grant funding through the West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute. Eight CPESN West Virginia pharmacies have opted into the program to counsel patients, provide disposal kits, and prescribe and dispense Naloxone based on risk screening. Pharmacies are reimbursed on a per patient encounter, and for follow-up patient calls made by pharmacy technicians

Leveraging Grants to Build Clincial Services

CPESN® New York Vice President Chris Daly shares his network's success being awarded a CDC 815 grant through the New York Department of Health to provide DSME services. All three CPESN NY networks are involved – Upstate NY, NYC, and Western New York, with 30 to 50 pharmacies participating at any time.
10 pharmacies are now accredited to hold their own diabetes classes and refer patients into those classes.

CPESN® Arkansas, Clinical Trial Referrals

CPESN® USA and Arkansas CPESN® board member Duane Jones shares his network's success providing patient identification and patient recruitment into clinical trials with RxE2 (5:00).