A conceptual value-based incentivization model of adult immunization for community pharmacists.

Objective: To design a value-based payment model to incentivize pharmacists for increased administration of influenza, herpes zoster, pertussis-containing, and pneumococcal vaccines to adults at community pharmacies.

Design: A modified delphi technique was used to create a concept for a value-based payment model through consensus of expert opinion.

Setting: and participants: Experts were recruited from a regional supermarket pharmacy, a self-insured employer, a managed care organization, and an academic institution to participate in 4 electronic surveys and 1 in-person meeting.

Using prescription dispensing data infographics to facilitate collaborative pharmacist-prescriber discussions on mutual patients.

Objective: To develop prescriber-specific infographics containing community pharmacy prescription dispensing data and share them with targeted prescribers to determine their utility in facilitating initial collaborative conversations regarding the care of mutual patients.

Methods: Prescription dispensing data from an independent community pharmacy in western Pennsylvania was collected to generate highly visual infographics for the most frequent prescribers to the pharmacy. Infographics were individualized for prescribers, and they included information on mutual patients between the pharmacy and the prescriber.

An Innovative Approach to Improving the Proposed CMS Star Rating "Statin Use in Persons with Diabetes".

The Statin Use in Persons with Diabetes (SUPD) measure has been adopted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a display measure for Medicare Part C and Part D plan sponsors and is slated for inclusion within the primary star rating measure set. As such, the measure has become a focal point for quality improvement efforts by many health plans. Current pharmacy-based interventions reported in the literature involve pharmacists recommending that a patient's provider issue a prescription for a statin; studies to date have not shown that this intervention has been effective for the majority of patients with diabetes.

Pharmacist-to-prescriber intervention to close therapeutic gaps for statin use in patients with diabetes: A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To assess the effect of a community pharmacist-led intervention on the proportion of patients with diabetes placed on statin therapy.

Design: The Pharmacy Quality Alliance endorsed a performance measure, Statin Use in Persons with Diabetes, which evaluates the percentage of patients aged 40-75 years who were dispensed a medication for diabetes and also received a statin medication.

Setting: This new measure has been implemented within the Electronic Quality Improvement Platform for Plans and Pharmacies (EQuIPP) dashboard.