CPF FUNDED GRANT DETAILS

Community pharmacies across Wisconsin face barriers to practice transformation, yet many persist, delivering care through sheer determination. This grit is the essence of grassroots transformation, and the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin (PSW) has a track record of working alongside community pharmacy practices to form strategic collaborations, coach pharmacies to leap over barriers, and implement systems changes to create revenue generating opportunities that deliver value to health care purchasers and patients, ?flipping? community pharmacy practice beyond point-in-time prescription level care to longitudinal patient level care. PSW has accumulated extensive experience as an early leader in practice transformation through the development of the Wisconsin Pharmacy Quality Collaborative (WPQC) in 2006, and with the establishment of a statewide Medication Therapy Management (MTM) payer (Wisconsin Medicaid) in 2012 and a current network of 166 accredited pharmacies. The first year of pharmacist recognition as Wisconsin Medicaid medical providers has shown that successful implementation begins with strong WPQC foundations. The project outlined in this application will deliver tailored coaching, led by Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN WI) coaches, to WPQC pharmacies statewide based on their level of WPQC engagement?low, medium, or high?using Wisconsin Medicaid MTM claims data and practice insights. Community Pharmacy Foundation (CPF) support will enable PSW to develop a scalable, stepped, multi-level coaching model to guide pharmacies from their current WPQC engagement level to the next level or to the final step of enrolling and providing medical services as Wisconsin Medicaid providers. Pharmacies will focus on providing comprehensive medication review and assessment (CMR/A) MTM services for patients with uncontrolled asthma to showcase the essential role and value community pharmacies provide to current and future payers as well as to patient health outcomes and quality of life.