Job Purpose:
Provide integrated support to patients and physicians by providing a hands-on approach to improve the quality of patient care. This is accomplished by developing personalized relationships with patients and prescribers of assigned clinics to improve medication adherence and promote evidence-based care expanding into various disease states therapy management.
Job Duties:
The Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist (ACP) will help advance quality pharmacotherapy care by actively assuring the provision of safe, efficacious, and cost-effective drug therapy. The ACP collaborates closely with the hybrid ACP team to maximize full suite of therapy management (TM) clinical services within supported clinics. The pharmacist performs in-person and/or virtual/phone assessments on disease state management and drug therapy education stratified based on medication risk level and approved clinic protocol. ACP role will focus to identify, resolve, and prevent medication-related problems. Additional services will also be offered to overcome identified barriers to medication compliance and any other obstacle related to adherence.
SUMMARY:
- Provide medication management for individuals, including medication reconciliation, dose modification and/or optimization, ordering laboratory tests and medication adherence counseling within the stated parameters of the approved protocol/CPA/CDTM.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team to develop individualized care plans that align with evidence-based guidelines and best practices for therapy management.
- Monitor and evaluate medication regimens to ensure clinical criteria are met, including therapeutic goals, adverse effects, and drug interactions.
- Identify opportunities for drug therapy optimization and provide recommendations for medication cost savings initiatives when applicable.
- Participate in quality improvement initiatives by actively participating in clinical outcome studies, REMs compliance/reporting, and ACP-related process improvement projects.
- Optimize resources and workflows with supporting roles handling complex prior authorizations/appeals by providing clinical justification for medication approval, including supporting literature and rationale.
- Collaborate with healthcare providers, including assigned clinic physicians, specialists, and onsite clinic pharmacists, to ensure seamless medication management and coordination of care.
- Support occasional peer-to-peer requests upon demand.
- Perform clinical assessments/educational counseling at drug-level for all patients within high priority clinics on qualified on