"CPE Monitor: Have you Obtained Your e-Profile ID"?

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 HHS Launches Million Hearts Campaign

The Building Blocks of Million Hearts: An Overview of Public & Private Supports

 Million Hearts will promote innovations to identify people now at cardiac risk, ensure that they receive appropriate treatment, reduce the need for blood pressure and cholesterol treatment, promote healthy diet and physical activity, and support smoke-free environments to reduce current and future cardiac risk.

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Quick Links:

Billing Medicaid for OTC Emergency Contraception

Link to the Medicaid Supplement authorizing OTC billing - click here

Link to payment flow chart and billing mechanism

The Changing Landscape for Vaccine Administration in the US: Managing vaccine storage and delivery at the pharmacy level

• Pharmacist administered vaccines is a growing trend at independent and chain pharmacy operations.
• During the H1N1 scare of 2009 the last of the 50 states passed laws allowing pharmacists to administer vaccines. When pharmacists are involved with vaccines inoculation rates are usually higher. Patients are becoming more comfortable with receiving vaccines from sources other than their primary care physician.
• Pharmacists can improve the efficacy of the vaccines they administer by maintaining refrigerator temperatures, careful handling and documenting temperature records. State regulators require that records be maintained and will look for it upon inspection. With everything a pharmacist must track and be responsible for, temperature record collection is often overlooked or taken for granted. Accidents and power outages are a regular part of the pharmacy environment. Using simple procedures and intelligent equipment pharmacists can easily insure that the vaccines they administer have been stored at the proper temperatures in the pharmacy.
• http://www.contractpharma.com/issues/2011-07/view_advanced-degrees/the-changing-landscape-for-vaccine-administration/

Getting a National Provider Identification number

Pharmacists are encouraged to get their NPI number. It is used for billing pharmacist provided vaccinations to New Mexico employees and family members through most state programs.

Here is the link to get started:
https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov/NPPES/Welcome.do

The NPI program was established by the US Department of Health and Human Services through CMS (Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services).

Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMS)

Forms developed by the PIM’s workgroup of the New Mexico Medical Review Association (NMMRA).

PIMS list and recommendations.

Algorithm for the Elderly:

Nausea   Migraine   Allergic Rhinitis  

Constipation   Insomnia   Generalized Anxiety Disorder

CLIA Waiver information for Pharmacies

A new section on this web site to provide information about obtaining a CLIA Waiver! Use the Pharmacy Resources link on the left or click here!

New Consumer & Clinician Information Page on this web site!

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has asked us to provide a link to their web site. This area will provide consumers and clinicians a resource for information based on quality research!

Click on the Consumer Info link in the left margin to check for other resources in the future. You can go directly to the AHRQ 411 site by clicking the following link:

www.healthcare411.ahrq.gov

LearnSomething - Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians on-line Continuing Education opportunities.

NMPhA Site Link
LearnSomething web site