CPF FUNDED GRANT DETAILS

The state of Mississippi was selected, along with 14 other state Medicaid agencies, as a recipient of CMS?s ten-year ?Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model? grant earlier this year. The Mississippi Division of Medicaid (MDOM) is looking to potentially partner on this TMaH grant to utilize local community pharmacies as care coordinators and providers of maternal care through participating pharmacies with recently trained CHWs, a program that was developed through the partnerships of MSDH and CPESN Mississippi. In order for them to ultimately include pharmacists as billable providers for maternal care and to support grant funding for this project, they need initial data. We were able to pivot our current resources through the grant funding support of the Community Pharmacy Foundation in three pilot stores, but MDOM and its managed care organizations would like to see a larger area of patients included in the data set before including it as a payer program in the 2026/2027 fiscal year. Our goal for this project is the expansion of a pharmacy-based maternal care program that focuses on the characteristics of the Maternal Health Service Set for Pharmacists created by NASPA. The program is intended to obtain patients through CHW outreach to community partners in addition to engagement with the pharmacy in the patient?s first trimester, and to provide this service up to the point of labor/delivery. This project would include monthly MOMs Pack, (containing a free 30 day supply of aspirin as indicated, an OTC prenatal vitamin, and iron, along with a fee for adherence packaging and a short Non-Medical Drivers of Health screening) and Trimester Screening Services in each trimester (which includes reimbursement for screening for vaccine eligibility (Flu, Tdap, RSV, COVID, etc), blood pressure, depression). The expanded pilot program would consist of 17 additional pharmacies with up to 10 patients in each pharmacy and can provide MDOM with the needed data for proof-of-concept in addition to the framework for data-sharing between MSDH, MDOM, and community pharmacies.