Pharmacist Involvement in Population Health Management for a Pediatric Managed Medicaid Accountable Care Organization
| Autor: | Olivia Valenti, Sonya Sebastian, Brigid K. Groves, Chester Kaczor, Joshua Nowack, Catherine Kuhn, Charitha Gowda, Christina Toth, Ujjwal Ramtekkar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Quality management
medication management pharmacist media_common.quotation_subject education Population Psychological intervention Pharmacist Review population health management quality improvement Nursing Health care Quality (business) health care economics and organizations media_common education.field_of_study business.industry lcsh:RJ1-570 lcsh:Pediatrics accountable care organization Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health business Inclusion (education) Medicaid |
| Zdroj: | Children Children, Vol 6, Iss 7, p 82 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2227-9067 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/children6070082 |
| Popis: | Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have emerged as an effective healthcare delivery model for managing quality and cost at a population level. Within ACOs, pharmacists are critical for the delivery of high-value health care, offering patients and health care providers medication-related training, resources, and guidance that can improve quality of care at lower costs. Partners For Kids (PFK), one of the oldest and largest pediatric ACOs in the country, has successfully leveraged pharmacists to provide population health management and medication management to promote health outcomes for individual patients and the overall population it serves. This review explores how the inclusion of pharmacists in the development and execution of various quality improvement initiatives within PFK has positively impacted outcomes for patients while also lowering overall spend. A catalog of interventions is provided to offer various ways that pharmacists can intersect as providers in the triad of patient/family, payor, and provider. By providing enhanced training and education, on-site guidance, medication management, and population-level data analysis, pharmacists are able to identify and improve inefficiencies in care. Moving forward, ongoing engagement of pharmacists in health care operations will be a necessary feature to maximize health care value. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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