Stanford Health Care’s Janjri Desai, Pharm.D., says pharmacists improve outcomes but often can’t bill for it, making billing parity key to growing services.
|Articles|March 1, 2004
Hospital contractual allowances are trending upward, latest research shows
According to the 2004 Almanac of Hospital and Financial Indicators, profitability will continue to suffer over the next few years
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Stanford Health Care’s Janjri Desai, Pharm.D., says pharmacy should be treated as a clinical service line, not just a 340B financial workhorse.
UC Davis Health’s Tiffany Phung, Pharm.D., and Tim Cutler, Pharm.D., say staff-driven ideas protect research independence in industry partnerships.
UC Davis Health’s Tiffany Phung, Pharm.D., and Tim Cutler, Pharm.D., say research justifies services and opens doors to limited distribution drugs.
As the pharmacist pipeline tightens, leaders from UC Davis Health, UCSF Health, and Sutter Health say financial sustainability now depends as much on capacity as on cost.
Will Carroll, Pharm.D., of Sutter Health says future pharmacy leaders need business, finance and AI skills, and health systems need real sponsorship.
Will Carroll, Pharm.D., of Sutter Health says pharmacy is often handed strategy to execute instead of shaping it, and must show value in C-suite terms.
Ty Gluckman, M.D., says undertesting and undertreatment are the biggest gaps in lipid care and calls on leaders to invest in cardiovascular prevention.
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