Pharmacist-Physician Split-Shared Visits in a Federally Qualified Health Center: Lessons Learned from a Novel Reimbursement Model using Telehealth.

The Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) setting poses unique challenges to reimbursement of services provided by ambulatory care pharmacists; however, recent changes to telemedicine reimbursement have created new opportunities to help overcome these challenges. This article describes the experience and outcomes of the implementation of a novel, pharmacist-physician split-shared telehealth model at AltaMed Medical Group, a large, multi-site FQHC in Los Angeles and Orange counties. : A pilot program for pharmacist-physician split shared tele-visits was launched at one clinic site with one clinical pharmacist and has since been expanded to a total of 6 sites and 5 clinical pharmacists.