Scott Soefje, PharmD: Take a Site-Specific Approach to Optimize Care Delivery, Finances
April 22nd 2024According to Scott Soefje, PharmD, understanding nuances across sites of care can help health care providers optimize patient care delivery while ensuring financial viability across all settings.
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Balancing Cost and Margin for Sustainable Cancer Care
April 19th 2024While prioritizing either cost or margin may be necessary at a site of care, big picture items, such as societal responsibility and long-term health care affordability, should guide financial analyses, said Scott Soefje, PharmD.
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How Differences in Bispecific Therapies Impact Myeloma Treatment Operations
April 18th 2024According to Kirollos Hanna, PharmD, although similarities exist between bispecific therapies in the myeloma space, health care providers should take special note of practical differences and nuances associated with each when operationalizing them at their site of care.
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Opening a Medicare-Focused Insurance Agency Offers Benefits to Independent Pharmacies
April 6th 2024Joe McKamey, general manager at Marcrom’s Pharmacy in Manchester, Tennessee, talks about why pharmacies should open their own Medicare-focused insurance agency and what steps and preparations they can take to ensure a successful launch and operation.
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Exploring the Role of Pharmacists as Facilitators of Harm Reduction Resources
April 1st 2024According to Anita Jacobson, PharmD, pharmacists should actively facilitate access to harm reduction programs by providing information and resources, ensuring the person who uses drugs doesn’t have to navigate the landscape on their own.
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Pharmacists Should Adapt Harm Reduction Efforts to Address Unregulated Substances
April 1st 2024It’s important that pharmacists continuously revise their counseling as new information about substances such as xylazine, levamisole, and phenacetin emerges, said Anita Jacobson at this year’s American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting & Exposition.
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Examining Trends in Long-Term Opioid Use, Importance of Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration
March 27th 2024At APhA 2024, 2 posters looked into how collaboration between physicians and community pharmacists is crucial when it comes to opioid prescriptions, and current opioid use patterns among older adults.
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Psychedelic Therapeutics: Education, Advocacy Key to Overcoming Integration Hurdles
March 26th 2024According to Sa’ed Al-Olimat, education and advocacy are key to ensure a safe and accessible landscape of psychedelic therapeutics, especially as the compounds inch closer to the mainstream health care market.
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