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SenioRx Radio hosts Jaron Stout and Joanne Payou sit down with best-selling author, Rosemary Gibson. Gibson is an award-winning author, inspirational speaker, and advisor to organizations that advance the public’s interest in health care. A national authority on health care reform, Medicare, patient safety and overtreatment in medicine, she has written critically acclaimed books: ChinaRx (2018), Medicare Meltdown (2013), Battle Over Health Care (2012), Treatment Trap (2010), and Wall of Silence (2003). Her writing has given voice to the public’s interest in critical health care issues of the day, including the drug pricing debate. Her most recent book, ChinaRx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine, is a well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.

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SenioRx Radio, part of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, in collaboration with the ASCP returns with a dynamic interview about Value Based Care in LTC Pharmacy.

Chad Worz, host of SenioRx Radio interviews Harry Thibodeau, PhC, R.Ph., CCP, FASCP Chief Operations Officer with Pharma-Care, Inc.

Medication related problems and medication mismanagement are a huge health problem with serious cost implications. In this age of austerity, employers are working hard to ensure that they provide employees and their families continued access to high quality health care while saving money.

To this end, the Asheville Project has proven to reduce avoidable treatment and hospitalizations that will generate substantial cost savings; up to four times greater than the cost of the program. Starting in Asheville, North Carolina, a Value Based Insurance Design, Medication Therapy Management (MTM) has had a long track record of achieving positive health outcomes for health plan enrollees with chronic conditions as evidenced by the twenty studies which found pharmacists improved economic and clinical outcomes through direct patient care.

1 Because of this impressive history, Value Based Care (MTM) programs are included in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug benefit. Over the past several years, Pharma-Care, Inc. has successfully implemented Value Based Care (MTM) services for many independent pharmacies and several municipalities, which, to date have yielded a 7.30:1 return on investment. They also contracted with the New Jersey Counties Division of Aging & Community Services, a division of the Department of Human Services (DHS), to provide Value Based Care (MTM) services to seniors living in their respective communities.

The Pharma-Care, Inc. Value Based Care Design program focuses on people with chronic health conditions to accomplish the following goals:

▪ Improve therapeutic outcome for targeted beneficiaries through improved medication use

▪ Reduce the risk of adverse health events through decreasing number of errors in prescribing and in taking medications

▪ Reduce the number of per patient medication claims and medical, hospital and emergency department costs The program has documented the following consistent effects among participants:

▪ Improved knowledge of their disease ▪ Increased medication adherence ▪ Improved self-management behaviors

▪ Improved clinical outcomes Pharma-Care, Inc. presents “Best in Class” solutions by employing a studied proven model, deeply engaging participants, providing individualized and goal driven guidance, providing proof of performance, and easy implementation and integration into current health plans.

1 American Journal of Health System Pharmacy, October 2010

Chad Worz, Pharm.D. Medication Managers LLC 513.746.5087 cell 888.847.2921 fax www.medicationmanagers.com

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Resilience is the capacity to not only overcome difficult circumstances and stressors – but to grow from those challenges! Resilient individuals are often successful due to their ability to adapt and handle stress effectively. SenioRx Radio hosts Jaron Stout and Joanne Payou sit down with Macayla A. Landi, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP to better understand stressors and identify ways that we can individually cultivate resilience in your personal and professional life.

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Justin Rash, PharmD, talks with Danielle (Rhyne) Fixen, an Assistant Professor and Geriatric Clinical Pharmacist at University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy, about medical cannabis and older adults.

Marijuana has had a turbulent history in the United States. Starting in the mid-1990s, however, there was a push to introduce the medical benefits of cannabis to the American people once again—”once again,” because before the 20th century, marijuana was almost entirely legal.

Beginning in the 1910s, states began to ban the sale of marijuana, eventually leading to a bill called the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, which decreased the amount of hemp (a version of a cannabis plant) allowed to be produced in the U.S. Later on in the century, the stigma around marijuana grew and Richard Nixon signed into law the Controlled Substances Act, which included marijuana on a list of federally banned drugs alongside heroin, cocaine, and other narcotics.

By the time the 1990s came along, though, states began adopting the medical benefits of marijuana, starting with California. About 15 years after that, marijuana itself—not just the medicinal qualities—became legal for recreational use in Washington and Colorado. As of 2017, 29 of 50 states have legalized some form of medical marijuana. A 2013 study revealed that four of five doctors approve of medical marijuana and that more than 90 percent of medical marijuana patients (of around 7,500 surveyed) say that medical marijuana has helped treat their conditions. Seniors were the largest age group in the study (more than 2,300 respondents).

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Opioids and the Older Adult: SenioRx Radio

Guests:

Marylee B. Grosso, BSPharm, RPh, PD, FASCP

Managing Partner, HealthCare Consults, LLC

Jennifer Urso, RPh, BCGP, FASCP

Director of Pharmacy Services, Guardian Elder Care

Host:

Justin Rash, PharmD, BCGP

Chair, ASCP Social Media Committee

Medical Science Liaison, LTC

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Don't miss out on this timely and important discussion that speaks to the national crisis of opioid addiction.

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