Pharmacist and Family Medicine Physician Collaboration for Pre-Visit Planning and Team Huddles for CCM Patients

Northeast Iowa Medical Education Foundation150 enrolled

Overview

This is a novel project which incorporates clinic and community pharmacists in three aspects of the Patient-Centered Medical Home: pre-visit planning, pre-visit care team huddles, and chronic care management (CCM). Patients for the project are enrolled in the NEIFPC CCM program and have Greenwood pharmacy as their primary pharmacy. Community and clinic pharmacists will contribute to pre-visit medication reviews and document their drug therapy recommendations in a shared, templated note in the clinic EHR. NEIFPC pharmacists will attend pre-visit team huddles to relay drug therapy recommendations to the physician. Revenue from CCM services will be prorated and shared between Greenwood pharmacy and NEIFPC. The project will last 9 months. Primary aims are to describe the pharmacist pre-visit planning service, summarize the billing experience of a community pharmacist providing this service, and to describe the drug therapy interventions made by pharmacists.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

150

Conditions

Chronic Conditions, Multiple

Eligibility

Sex: ALLHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patient enrolled in Medicare * Patient enrolled in the Chronic Care Management (CCM) program at the Northeast Iowa Family Practice Center * Patient's primary pharmacy is Greenwood Pharmacy Exclusion Criteria: * Patient not enrolled in Medicare * Patient not enrolled in CCM program * Patient's primary pharmacy is any pharmacy other than Greenwood Pharmacy

Locations (1)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Summary of Drug Therapy Interventions made by Pharmacists

Summarize drug therapy interventions made by community and ambulatory care pharmacists for pre-visit team huddles with Family Medicine physicians.

Time frame: 07/01/2020- 03/31/2021