Improved medication adherence for patients with diabetes is the goal of a new Medicaid managed care pilot program for CPESN North Carolina pharamcists. Amina Abubakar, owner of Avant Pharmacy & Wellness in Charlotte and a North Carolina luminary, describes the network opportunity.

Increased adherence to oral anticoagulants in Medicare AFib patients is the goal of a new multi-partner program for CPESN® North Carolina. The collaborative includes the CPESN Clinically Integrated Network (CIN), a pharmaceutical manufacturer, a health insurer, and a large health system. Luminary Jessi Stout, owner of Table Rock Pharmacy in Morganton, NC, describes the opportunity.

Eric Hughes, project manager with CPESN® Arkansas, describes a new contract for that network with CSS Health. Network pharmacies will provide comprehensive and targeted medication reviews for identified patients with reporting through the CSS MTM platform. 36 pharmacies are enrolled and other interested Arkansas network pharmacies should contact Eric at [email protected].

A new contract with a clinical trial research group offers CPESN Utah pharmacies an opportunity to identify and refer qualifying patients for participation in drug development research.

CPESN Texas Pharmacist Laura Temple, owner of Laura's Pharmacy in Azle, TX, describes how using Asthma Severity Technology as part of a network pilot program helped her adjust medications and improve the outcome for a patient.

With the 4th-year renewal of a partnership with the South Dakota Dept. of Health, CPESN South Dakota pharmacists will take the successful cardiovascular disease program and their services into the communities where they will educate and screen for CVD risk.

Pharmacists in the CPESN® Pennsylvania network are delivering services under their full scope of practice in that state under an expanded program with a long-standing Medicaid MCO payer-partner. The long-term goal is to transition to pharmacists as plan providers with medical billing.

CPESN® USA Director of Value Based Contracting, Alison Haas, pharmacist & owner of Jackson Pharmacy & Wellness Center in Jackson Center, Ohio, highlights the expansion of the CPESN partnership with Mobility Health to all CPESN pharmacies across the country. Mobility provides lab services to support COVID-19 and flu testing.

In our 100th success video, CPESN® Utah Managing Network Facilitator, Benjamin Jolley, pharmacist with Jolley's Compounding Pharmacy in Salt Lake City, shares a unique success story about pharmacists becoming recognized as Medicaid providers and a new budgeted mandate in Utah directing that state's Medicaid program to pay pharmacists billing under CPT codes for Medication Therapy Management.

Roger Paganelli, CPESN USA Luminary and CPESN NYC pharmacist and coowner of Mt. Carmel Pharmacy in the Bronx, describes how two Bronx pharmacies will raise patient awareness about clinical trial opportunities, focusing particularly on health equity in underserved populations. The opportunity is part of a CPESN® USA national contract with Inside Edge Consulting, a company working with pharmaceutical sponsors of clinical drug trials. (4:45).