Community Practice

Pharmacy technicians who want to recertify need to familiarize themselves with the new requirements being phased in over the next few years.

Access to prescription drugs is possible for uninsured residents of northern Virginia, thanks to NOVA ScriptsCentral and its 26 partner clinics.

Over the next four months, CVS’ Project Health wellness programs will provide more than $14 million in free health services to communities throughout the United States with significant numbers of uninsured or underinsured patients, the company recently announced.

A community pharmacy group in Clinton, Iowa, shares its formula for improving medication adherence and patient outcomes while reducing hospital readmissions and healthcare costs.

Even without provider status, there's more to delivery of MTM services than some pharmacists may think. Here's a breakdown.

As fears of the Ebola virus and other infectious diseases rise, pharmacists will undoubtedly be called upon to provide patients with public health information and referrals to appropriate care, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) continues to advocate for legislation that would allow community pharmacies to participate in all Medicare Part D drug plan networks, including “preferred” networks.

Starting next year, health plans that earn 3 or more stars will be able to continue to serve Medicare beneficiaries. Those with fewer than 3 stars will probably be eliminated from the Medicare system.

ConnecT2Day is designed to help healthcare providers counsel patients in managing type 2 diabetes.

In which a determined pharmacist battles the forces of ignorance and stupidity on behalf of his patient and his own sanity.

In most retail chain stores, the buck stops at the pharmacy supervisor’s desk. Here's a look at the pharmacy biz from their point of view.

Patients should decide how a pharmacy can best communicate with patients. And they can use a very American way to make their feelings known.

The OIG determined that per-fill fees are “inherently subject to abuse” because of their direct tie to the number of patient prescriptions referred to the specialty pharmacy.

Adults can protect themselves against flu with a needle-free option. There's a benefit for vaccine administrators too - no needle sticks.

Each of the 26 free CE modules features an online Powerpoint lecture, a training video, an interactive activity set, and assessment questions.

By 2020, approximately 62% of all active pharmacists will be women. Here we follow three paths to rewarding and creative careers.

The Affordable Care Act is drastically changing the way patients and employers pay for healthcare and prescriptions.

Whether ACA thrives or bombs, the future is likely to bring upheaval that results in cost savings and improved delivery of healthcare services.

Health plans that have not scored at least three stars for the last three consecutive years will be vulnerable to elimination from the Medicare system. Pharmacists are in an ideal position to help with those scores.

New Rx, indications, generics, and OTC products

It's time to tackle the unmentionables.

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U.S. citizens visited foreign destinations 62 million times last year. Many needed travel vaccines. That's a big niche.

A New York legislator said he plans to introduce a bill aimed at preventing an Upper East Side pharmacy from charging 9/11 responders $150 to obtain printouts of their records.

FDA has approved two new HIV-1 cocktail drugs: elvitegravir (Vitekta, Gilead), an integrase inhibitor and cobicistat (Tybost, Gilead), a protease-inhibitor booster.

How often do patients reach out to pharmacists in brick-and-mortar stores? The answer may surprise you.

FDA approved tiotropium bromide (Spiriva Respimat, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals) inhalation spray for the long-term, once-daily maintenance treatment of bronchospasm associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to reduce exacerbations in patients with COPD.

Pharmacists delivering patient care services as part of patient-centered, interdisciplinary healthcare teams can make a difference for diabetes patients who are disproportionately affected by the disease and have limited access to quality care, according to the final results of Project IMPACT: Diabetes.

FDA has approved dulaglutide (Trulicity, Eli Lilly) to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus. The drug is a once-weekly subcutaneous injection used to improve glycemic control and is indicated as an adjunct to diet and exercise in the management of type 2 diabetes in adults.

California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed legislation that makes the state the sixth to allow access to the overdose antidote naloxone without a prescription.