Medicare Part D’s New Prescription Payment Plan May Not Reduce Costs For All | Health Affairs buff.ly/42QIdAd by Stacie Dusetzina Autumn Zuckerman Nancy Keating and Haiden A. Huskamp from Vanderbilt School of Medicine Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy Harvard Medical School via @health_affairs

In their new Forefront article, Stacie Dusetzina Autumn Zuckerman Nancy Keating and Haiden A. Huskamp of Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy, and Harvard Medical School argue that the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan may have the unintended consequence of 'surprise' bills. bit.ly/3SP9XlG

VSP recently published a Viewpoint in JAMA Internal Medicine discussing the rising usage of copay adjustment and alternative funding programs, and how these changes may impact patients prescribed specialty medications. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Important work from Stacie Dusetzina, @autumnzuckerman and Megan Schneider in JAMA Internal Medicine on alternative funding programs, which is one of those topics that a lot more people should be tracking on.

Thank you to everyone who attended our 2nd Annual Department of Pharmaceutical Services Research Forum. It was great to see our staff, residents, and students present their research and QI projects to the greater VUMC community!

5️⃣ Many #Medicare Beneficiaries Do Not Fill High-Price Specialty Drug Prescriptions by Stacie Dusetzina, H. Huskamp, R. Rothman, L. Pinheiro, A. Roberts, Nilay Shah, Theresa Walunas, PhD, FAMIA, W. Wood, Autumn Zuckerman,Leah Zullig, PhD, and Nancy Keating. bit.ly/3ZIlWmh

Specialty pharmacists Vanderbilt Health are using an often overlooked SmartForm reporting tool in the Epic system to streamline data reporting in the center’s HCV clinic. specialtypharmacycontinuum.com/Operations-and… NASP #NASPAnnual #ThisIsNASP #HCV

Investigators Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy identified patients who were nonadherent to their medications and developed interventions that yielded significant improvements in compliance. pharmacypracticenews.com/Pharmacy-Techn… Autumn Zuckerman ASHP @JOANNSTUBBINGS

Disease-modifying therapy switches occur frequently in patients with relapsing MS. VSP has identified how integrated specialty pharmacists can key in on identifying the need for a DMT switch and ease therapy transitions.

A new case series and lit review in OFID addresses crushing and splitting direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C virus treatment in patients unable to swallow tablets: bit.ly/3x6r0mP

#IDSAJournals Paul Sax Jonathan Li Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy Kristen Whelchel Autumn Zuckerman

The best! Mariu Duggan

Middle Tennessee Health Care Leaders Issue Plea for Vaccination nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthe… via Nashville Scene

MMITNetwork announces sixth-annual Specialty Pharmacy Patient Choice Awards finalists for best-in-class customer satisfaction and commitment to patient care. hubs.ly/H0TrkNJ0 #PatientChoiceAwards @Asembia MMIT Network

Are you interested in expanding the research program at your health-system specialty pharmacy? Check out this excellent guide published by Autumn Zuckerman et al in AJHP.
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VSP wants to congratulate Miranda Kozlicki on completing her PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at VUMC and joining VSP full-time as a clinical pharmacist!

Today at PQA Annual Meeting, Wendi Owens will present on the impact of specialty pharmacy integration on timely and affordable access to Rx CBD, and Miranda Kozlicki will present on how a lab monitoring dashboard reduced treatment lapses! #TwitterRx #PQA21

Kudos to Michael Dewan on his first spot ranking in the 50 most cited #globalneurosurgery articles for his paper on providing essential neurosurgical care in #LMICs . Learn more here: academic.oup.com/neurosurgeryop… VUMC Neurosurgery

Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy is excited to announce the launch of our Twitter. Our goal is to advocate for health-system specialty pharmacy by disseminating outcomes research findings and celebrating the achievements of our programs and staff.