Barnett and colleagues performed a study with 2 objectives: (1) to describe trends over a 7-year period in the primary types of medication therapy management (MTM) services provided by community ...

A pharmacist-led Medicare Medication Therapy Management program can improve clinical outcomes in Medicare beneficiaries without an increase in medication costs. Patients who received MTM services ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. In the U.S. about 20% of new prescriptions are never filled, and ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009;66(15):1390-1393. Pharmacists can overcome the barriers encountered during this analysis in several ways. First, pharmacists have the capability to work together to affect ...

Quality evidence is needed to support a new Medicare Part D medication therapy management (MTM) program performance measure, prompting a scoping review on MTM services and associated outcomes.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is announcing a new demonstration model today to test changes to the Medicare Part D program.

More supermarkets are getting into the drug counseling business and are expecting it to add significant dollars to their pharmacy bottom lines. Medication Therapy Management — known widely as ‘MTM’ — ...

(Editor’s note: This story is part of a series on age-friendly health care for The John A. Hartford Foundation.) Carla* (name changed) is a 92-year-old woman with congestive heart failure, high blood ...

CMS launched the Part D Enhanced Medication Therapy Management model Jan. 1 in five Part D regions nationwide to test the use of innovative medication therapy management programs to improve care ...

The annual enrollment period for Medicare Part D plans will be here before you know it. While prescription drug plans are just one piece of a health insurance package. Your knowledge of specific ...

Access to medication therapy management (MTM), which is already in place and available via the Center for Healthy Living (CHL) on the West Lafayette campus, now has expanded access via participating ...

As part of the expanded MTM access, participating pharmacies can provide targeted medication check-ins during prescription fills (no appointment needed) as well as comprehensive medication review ...