Local Pharmacies Connecting Community and Patients
As trusted community health providers, CPESN community pharmacies are on the front lines every day with patients confronting health-impacting inequities. Integrating Community Health Workers, navigators, and peer health mentors to the pharmacy can expand attractive service offerings funded through a variety of local, state, and federal funding sources, as well as public-private payer partnerships.
Increasingly, Medicaid MCOs and exchange payers are adding social determinants of health screenings and referrals to community pharmacy payment models. Local pharmacy support staff - including delivery drivers, and cashiers along with technicians and CHWs - have the trust and touchpoints to identify barriers and solve problems. For health plans, that can lead to cost-saving mitigation.
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The need for community pharmacy to address Social Determinants of Health will continue to grow as the value-based marketplace matures.
Health Equity Services Model is Built on Local Successes
Successful engagement of pharmacy-based community health workers and outreach workers in a HRSA-funded vaccine hesitancy program helped pave the way for the special purpose network CPESN® Health Equity. Details are shared in the video at left. Here's a recent Pharmacy Times article focused on the expanding role of pharmacy technicians training to become certified community health workers and health equity experts.
Health Equity
Your Secondary CPESN Chapter affiliate focused on helping you get paid for local Social Determinants of Heath service delivery. CPESN Health Equity readies your pharmacy to address the growing health inequity crisis.
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