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Five for Friday August 11: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

PQA

-- Loren Kirk, PharmD, CPHQ, CAE, IOM, PQA Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships Providing Immunizations in Community Pharmacy Angela Passamonte, from Retail Business Services, joined the PQS Quality Corner Show to discuss the value of providing immunizations at a community pharmacy level.

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Five For Friday, September 9: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality

PQA

The pharmacies in New York employed a social-determinants-of-health-specialist model, in which a staff member was trained to provide screenings and refer patients to an independent practice association that later connected patients to local resources.

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Medication Adherence and the Importance of Packaging

Lifewell Rx Pharmacy

Properly packed drugs can last longer and maintain their quality and efficacy by following FDA regulations in packing and storing medications. By working with an established community pharmacy in Kentucky , you can maximize the benefits of your prescribed drugs. Effective packaging stretches a drug’s purpose?

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Is Mounjaro covered by Medicaid?

The Checkup by Singlecare

A study published in 2022 found “significant price variation in community pharmacies,” and a Consumer Reports survey showed prices can vary by hundreds of dollars between pharmacies—even ones in the same town. Without help from a health insurance plan, Medicare Part D, or Medicaid, the drug’s list price is $1,069.08

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Prescribing shift for Pfizer’s Paxlovid expands access but draws questions

Pharmaceutical Technology

On 6 July, in an effort to accelerate access, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed pharmacists to also begin prescribing the drug to eligible individuals with Covid-19. In its announcement, the FDA advised individuals to keep their electronic or printed health records from the past year ready while seeking treatment.

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How to Succeed in Pharmacy School

Find Your Script

Most Schools of Pharmacy have you apply for your Intern Pharmacist License with the State Board of Pharmacy within the first month of P1 year starting. You can consider the FDA programs, Veteran Affairs programs, Pharmaceutical Industry programs and more.

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What is a Compounding Pharmacy?

BuzzRx

If your doctor’s office has given you a prescription with instructions to fill it at a compounding pharmacy, you might be wondering what exactly this means. There are 56,000 community pharmacies in the US. Only around 7,500 are compounding pharmacies, of which only 3,000 perform sterile compounding.