Integration and compensation of pharmacists into primary care medical groups.

Objective: To demonstrate the expansion of an outpatient pharmacy program within a health system via annual wellness visits (AWVs) and disease state management patient encounters at outpatient medical groups.

Setting: A referral-based pharmacist-managed ambulatory care center, a department of a hospital, and 4 primary care medical groups of a community practice hospital health system in Savannah and Pooler, Georgia, and Bluffton, South Carolina.

Practice Description: St.