Strategies to Expand Value-Based Pharmacist-Provided Care

Pharmacist-provided care is the future of pharmacy and patient-centered healthcare. It is value-based care, where outcomes — including medication adherence, clinical status and patient satisfaction — can be tracked and measured. Pharmacist-provided care can transform the pharmacist’s role in healthcare from a medication dispenser to an indispensable patient partner and clinical care team member.

The Strategies to Expand Value-Based Pharmacist-Provided Care Action Guide is the resource to foster the adoption of pharmacist-provided care and help patients live healthier, longer lives.

Call to Action

The goal of this action guide is to spark conversation and collaboration between community pharmacy organizations, pharmacists, and healthcare payers. We encourage you to read the report and engage your colleagues. From the frontlines to the boardroom and from clinical practice to research and policy, your ideas, commitment and effort are the key to expanding value-based pharmacist-provided care.

This guide contains actions that pharmacists and payers can take to foster the adoption of pharmacist-provided care and help patients live healthier, longer lives. There are 15 recommended actions: five for pharmacists, five for payers and five for pharmacists and payers to pursue together. The actions are shaped by an industry survey and a multi-stakeholder roundtable convened by PQA.

Take action now by accessing the recommendations for your stakeholder group!

The U.S. healthcare system continues a shift to value-based care with a focus on efficient, coordinated care that meets the needs of patients. Aligned with this shift, community pharmacy practice is transforming from product reimbursement and fee-for-service models to pay-for-performance models in which quality, value, and patient outcomes are measured and incentivized.

This care delivery transformation provides pharmacies and pharmacists expanding opportunities to partner with payers and other healthcare stakeholders in delivering essential, high-quality and cost-effective care. As our healthcare system transitions from fee-for-service to value-based care, pharmacies have expanded opportunities to sustainably partner with payers and other healthcare stakeholders in delivering essential, cost-effective care.

"Pharmacist-provided care can transform the pharmacist’s role in healthcare from a medication dispenser to an indispensable clinical care team member. From medication synchronization to diverse clinical services, pharmacist-provided care is the future of pharmacy and patient-centered healthcare."