Managed care is an approach to improve the quality and accessibility of healthcare, which is becoming more relevant to the field of pharmacy through Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Learning about the principles of managed care will help you develop and prepare for your career, no matter what field of pharmacy you choose to practice! AMCP's Mission: To empower its members to serve society by using sou
nd medication management principles and strategies to improve health care for all. As a pharmacist in Managed Care Pharmacy, you will apply your clinical skills to optimize patient outcomes and lower medication therapy costs for the patient and the healthcare organization! Some of the tasks AMCP’s members perform include:
-- Monitoring the safety and clinical effectiveness of new medications on the market;
-- Alerting patients to potentially dangerous drug interactions when a patient is taking two or more medications prescribed by different providers;
-- Designing and carrying out medication therapy management programs to ensure patients are taking medications that give them the best benefit to keep them healthy;
-- Creating incentives to control patients’ out-of-pocket costs, including through lower copayments on generic drugs and certain preferred brands. These practices, and more, aim to ensure that all patients can receive the medications they need to improve their health while at the same time keeping health care costs under control. On the chapter level, we serve as an outlet for those students who are interested in a career in managed care pharmacy. Meetings will be held roughly once a month and will focus on a topic in managed care. Past speakers have come from UPMC HealthPlan, Walgreen's Specialty Pharmacy, Accredo, and Highmark. The AMCP NEXUS Conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 20-23, 2020. Our Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Competition will begin later this fall and will be held in January 2021.
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