About the role
<p><strong>Job Purpose: </strong></p> <p>Provide integrated support to patients and physicians by providing a "hands-on" approach to improve the quality of patient care. This is accomplished by developing personalized relationships with patients and prescribers of assigned clinics to improve medication adherence and promote evidence-based care expanding into DM therapy management.</p> <p><strong>Job Duties:</strong></p> <p>The Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist (ACP) will help advance quality pharmacotherapy care by actively assuring the provision of safe, efficacious, and cost-effective drug therapy for DM/Obesity population. The ACP works remotely and collaborates closely with hybrid ACP team onsite to maxamize full suite of therapy management (TM) clinical services within supported clinics. The pharmacist performs phone-based assessments on disease state management and drug therapy education stratified based on medication risk level and approved clinic protocol. ACP role will focus to identify, resolve, and prevent medication-related problems. Additional services will also be offered to overcome identified barriers to medication compliance, injection training and any other obstacle related to adherence.</p> <p><strong>SUMMARY</strong><strong>:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide medication therapy management for individuals with diabetes and/or obesity, including medication reconciliation, dose optimization, and medication adherence counseling.</li> <li>Collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team to develop individualized care plans that align with evidence-based guidelines and best practices for diabetes management.</li> <li>Monitor and evaluate medication regimens to ensure clinical criteria are met, including therapeutic goals, adverse effects, and drug interactions.</li> <li>Identify opportunities for drug therapy optimization and provide recommendations for medication cost savings initiatives when applicable</li> <li>Participate in quality improvement initiatives by actively participating in clinical outcome studies, REMs compliance/reporting, and ACP-related process improvement projects.</li> <li>Optimize resources and workflows with supporting roles handling complex prior authorizations/appeals by providing clinical justification for medication approval, including supporting literature and rationale.</li> <li>Collaborate with healthcare providers, including assigned clinic physicians, specialists, and onsite clinic pharmacists, to ensure seamless medication management and coordination of care.</li> <li>Support occasional peer-to-peer requests upon demand.</li> <li>Perform clinical assessments/educational counseling at drug-level for all patients within high priority clinics on qualified on a targeted medication(s)</l