Five for Friday April 25: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
Welcome to Five For Friday!
The 2025 PQA Annual Meeting is just four weeks away, and we are excited to welcome you to Tampa! The meeting provides in-person, high-impact opportunities for networking, professional development, continuing education, and strategic engagement with business partners and prospects.
We have more than 50 speakers across 20 sessions and events that will share insights on how to succeed in today's competitive and rapidly changing health care market. We look forward to connecting with you all to discuss our shared goals to advance medication use quality. Learn more about the meeting below.
We also highlight our members' perspectives on pharmacist services and medication adherence. If you have news you'd like for us to spotlight in an upcoming Five For Friday, send us an email!
-- Virginia Sweeter, PQA Director of Convening
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) released a new set of recommendations to help integrate pharmacists' clinical services into health plan medical benefits. The guidance lays out 11 key strategies to support collaboration between pharmacists and health plans. "These recommendations serve as a road map for health plans and pharmacists to collaborate on building sustainable models that recognize the value pharmacists bring to the health care system."
Transforming Medication Adherence Strategies
A new article from AdhereHealth's Kempton Presley details best practices that can help Medicare Advantage plans improve their Star Ratings performance while allowing for strategies for medication adherence to grow. Personalized engagement, behavioral science-based techniques, and intelligent data-driven strategies are now essential for addressing the real-world challenges that stand in the way of adherence.
Expanding Services Critical for Independent Pharmacies
Douglas Hoey, CEO of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), discussed what pharmacies can do to increase revenue and avoid shutting their doors, as well as the importance of independent pharmacies in the health care landscape. Expanding into niche services is a strategy many pharmacies are finding success with. Introducing clinical services—such as compounding, immunizations, and mobile vaccine outreach—are also giving a financial lifeline to some pharmacies.
Finalize Your Plans for the 2025 PQA Annual Meeting 
Finalize your plans to join PQA at the 2025 PQA Annual Meeting, May 19-21, at the JW Marriot Tampa Water Street. This year's meeting will address top issues and emerging trends in medication use quality, such as medication therapy management, value-based arrangements, obesity treatment and care, and strategies for closing gaps in care and outcomes.
Register and reserve your room today! Here are our top three reasons to attend
- Network throughout the meeting to connect with PQA members and leaders across health care.
- All 15 breakout sessions are accredited for pharmacists continuing education. Earn 0.4 CEUs of credit.
- More than 50 speakers will share expert insights and best practices to improve medication use quality from every angle in the industry.
See the full agenda to learn more about our general sessions and the topics and speakers for our 15 breakout sessions. PQA also offers a special 4-hour, pre-meeting workshop, Medication Use Quality Live, accredited for 0.4 hours of pharmacy CE.
Your Next Engagement Opportunities
Network, Learn and Collaborate with PQA
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Join us at the 2025 PQA Annual Meeting, May 19-21, at the JW Marriott Tampa Water Street in Tampa, Fla. PQA's collaborative approach makes it the meeting the preferred destination for quality improvement professionals. Early registration ends Monday, April 21!!
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PQA's 2nd Quarter 2025 Stakeholder Advisory Meeting is June 11, 1-2 pm ET. PQA SAMs are members-only events that are held quarterly to share current and relevant measure development and maintenance updates. The registration link is in the Member Resources Library.
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Save the date for the 2025 PQA Leadership Summit, November 13-14 in Arlington, Va. The summit convenes thought leaders, key decision makers, and quality stakeholders to interactively and collaboratively develop strategies to improve medication use quality and is an invitation-only event.