Alyssa Eisenberg, PharmD, explores technology’s emerging role in the health care environment and how the pharmacist of the future’s day-to-day tasks might evolve.
|Articles|November 20, 2006
More systems available to help you provide MTM
So you've decided to provide medication therapy management (MTM) services to your Medicare Part D patients. Which technological product should you use to document and bill for these services? "Technology plays a very significant role," commented Stefan Merlo, Pharm.D., manager of pharmacy practice and operations at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. "If pharmacies are not able to properly document and bill for their services, the process is not going to work."
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