How to Establish Specialty Pharmacy Services in Your Health System: Experience from the Field

Monday, Dececmber 3, 2012
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Activity #: 204-000-12-202-L04P
Level of Content: Intermediate
2.00 Contact Hours / Knowledge-based
Program Chair: JoAnn Stubbings, BS Pharm, MHCA

Learning Objectives:

• Develop a strategic plan for specialty pharmacy in a health system, including retail, specialty, home infusion, medication therapy management (MTM), and pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services.
• Identify the opportunities for specialty pharmacy at an institution, including how to analyze prescription data, and develop projections and a business plan.
• Design the clinical and operation elements of a specialty pharmacy practice model.
• Identify barriers to access for specialty medication and how to overcome them, including limited distribution medications and payer restrictions.
• Describe the role of specialty pharmacy in health system quality indicators.