Pharmacist medical provider status in Alaska, the last frontier.
| Autor: | Wadsworth TG, Hibbard A, Robinson R, Biddle MA, Nguyen E, O'Connor S, Paul A |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA [J Am Pharm Assoc (2003)] 2020 Nov - Dec; Vol. 60 (6), pp. e47-e51. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 07. |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.japh.2020.03.025 |
| Abstrakt: | Alaska law and health care policies, incidentally, designate pharmacists as billable medical providers when providing health care services. However, state and commercial provider enrollment and claims processing systems are not configured to enroll and accept claims from pharmacists. Alaska law does not protect pharmacists from unfair discriminatory practices by payors despite such protections being afforded in federal regulation. Additional advocacy and legislation are needed to fully implement pharmacists as billing medical providers within traditional payor models. Health care services provided by pharmacists can help alleviate unmet patient health care needs in the community and primary care settings of Alaska. The identified barriers will continue to limit the ability of pharmacists in Alaska to sustainably provide lifesaving, scope-permitted, and otherwise covered services to those in greatest need. (Copyright © 2020 American Pharmacists Association®. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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