Success Stories

In this first video in an ongoing Community Connected series, Elissa Brown describes the tradition of celebrating Lei Day on May 1 in Hawaii. To connect more closely with patients in outlying areas, CPESN® Hawaii pharmacists take clincis to remote communities to provide screenings, immunizations, and other health services.

Affiliating with Special Purpose Program CPESN® Health Equity helped CPESN® Wyoming secure CDC 1815 grant funding to integrate Community Health Workers to their practices and address social determinants of health needs for their patients.

CPESN® Hawaii pharmacies reached out to Medicare programs with medication adherence gaps for treating diabetes, hypertension, and other chronic illnesses. In addition to meeting year-end goals for the health plan, the pharmacies coached patients to support their longer term health outcomes.

Rebecca Wagers, CPESN® NET Managing Network Facilitator, says the Emergent ACO Special Purpose Partnership has expanded to seven states and that CPESN pharmacies have submiitted more than 50,000 eCare plans. And that's just the start.

Eric Hughes, CPESN® Arkansas Managing Network Facilitator, describes one of three new RxE2 clinical trial recruitment recruitment opportunities for 2023. In this multi-state recruitment, pharamcies in several networks review prescribing records to identify patients with treatment-resistent depression. Some patients with a specific gene marker may participate in an investigational drug study. It's a payable opportunity for patients, and creates network revenue as well.

Community pharmacies educating patients - especially in underserved communities - about health conditions and access to clinical trials is the focus of a partnership between CPESN® USA and Inside Edge Consulting Group.

Cold calls to the South Dakota Department of Health five years ago opened the way for a successful hypertension management program. The small network in a rural state has tripled in size and delivered cardiovascular risk reduction programs to more than 150 patients.

CPESN® Hawaii credits a unified marketing front, persistence, and leveraging COVID-19 opportunities for that network's steady growth and payer contracts.

CPESN® USA PPP Regional Lead Laura Rhodes describes how pharmacies in CPESN® Virginia and CPESN® Florida collectively engaged dually eligible patients in a quick turn program to obtain blood pressure readings and help the MCO close care gaps. Looking forward, Rhodes says with an earlier start in the year, CPESN community pharmacy efforts can deliver greater impact for MCO payers.

Grant-funded Nicotene Replacement Therapy program helped CPESN® California pharmacies refine workflows and create patient awareness of health services under expanded Medi-Cal coverage. Pharmacy Support Staff were critical to program success.

Breah Schibi of Bowen Pharmacy in Parsons, Kansas describes her positive experience with offering self-administered early cognitive testing to 65+ pharmacy patients. Bowen is one of 29 CPESN pharmacies selected for the program in partership with Avant Institute and funded by the global Davos Alzheimer's Initiative.

G&M Pharmacy in Oxford, MS is one of five CPESN community pharmacies to complete a multi-state pilot program with RxE2 where deidentified patient gender, race, ethnic data was collected and reported. The program demonstrates how the community pharmacy relationship with patients can help expand access to clinical trials for underrepresented ethnic and racial populations.

RxSelect CPESN® the Oklahoma local network provides comprehensive and targeted medication reviews for Medicaid patients at a high risk for return hospitalization or emergency visits. The result = lower total cost of care.

CPESN® Texas pharmacist Traci Bayer, co-owner of Hillcrest Pharmacy in Vernon, Texas, describes a patient's success in reaching blood pressure goals as part of a grant-funded remote patient monitoring pilot program.

CPESN® Maryland has it's first contract to provide high-touch clinical services to Medicaid patients with diabetes and asthma.

A shortage of lifestyle change coaches to implement CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program led CPESN Alabama leaders to offer free coach training. Lead Luminary Patrick Devereux says the network believes that having 15 certified coaches will lead to Medicare MCO and commercial payer opportunities.

Documentation of a blood pressure reading for nearly 1,000 patients by the end of year is the goal for 100 CPESN Florida pharmacies as part of a new managed MCO program. Laura Rhodes, Managing Network Facilitator, hopes the program will lead to more opportunities in 2023.

CPESN® West Virginia pharmacist Amber Conrad describes how the extension of a grant-funded Naloxone dispensing program allows her network's pharmacies to serve their communities. The program is funded through the West Virginia Drug Invention Institute and the West Virginia Department of Health.

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 ehughes@cpesn.com.

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.

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.

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).

About 30 pharmacies enrolled in the EngageDr. program, exclusive to CPESN® USA participants, are offering early Alzheimer's and dementia screening to their patients. Funding is through a Davos Alzheimer's grant to Avant Institute. Pharmacies provide 10-minute self-screening, review results, and make referrals to physicians.

Martha Mosher, pharmacist and owner of the El Paso Medicine Shoppe, credits CPESN® Texas and its partnership with the University of Texas for preparing her pharmacy to offer its first clinical program - Diabetes Self Management Education.