The hospital outpatient pharmacy should be targeting Meds-to-beds, specialty pharmacy and lowerin...
In 1992, Congress created a federal drug discount program under Section 340B of the Public Health...
Many hospitals across the country breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Trump Adminis...
By including the following practices within your hospital’s outpatient pharmacy, you are we...
There is a shift happening in health care from inpatient-centered care to an emphasis on outpatie...
The success and profitability of hospital outpatient pharmacies vary widely. Some hospi...
In 1992, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) started the 340B discount drug p...
Hospitals who leverage their owned pharmacies for employee medications can easily reduce pharmacy...
More and more hospitals and health systems are considering building in-house outpatient pharmacie...
Unplanned readmissions cost Medicare approximately $26 billion per year, and nearly 20 percent of...
Medication non-adherence is a constant source of hospital readmissions and has been measured to b...
There has been a great deal of activity in the 340B contract pharmacy space in the last six years...
The role of pharmacists is changing and growing every day. This role now being viewed as a hospit...
The 340B discount drug program was designed to alleviate the large financial burden of costly pha...
Outpatient pharmacies can provide great value for employees when leveraged appropriately. In...
Many large hospitals have deployed, or are in the process of deploying outpatient pharmacies. Not...
The third part of our series: Hospitals who leverage their outpatient pharmacies for employee med...
With all the complex departments that already exist in your healthcare organization, adding anoth...
A service that is often a complementary add-on to a hospital outpatient pharmacy is a meds-to-bed...
The Affordable Care Act and Value Based Care movement has made hospitals rethink their outpatient...
Hospital-owned outpatient pharmacies are often unappreciated and shied away from due to the bad e...
Hospital readmission penalties from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continue to affect th...
Hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers have traditionally looked at themselves as transaction...
A follow-up to our post from earlier this week: Hospitals who leverage their outpatient pharmacie...
There are many examples of health systems that have taken a DIY approach to pharmacy, particularl...
The Institute of Medicine’s Preventing Medication Errors report reveals that the average hospital...
In 2014, Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, piloted the Medication Therapy Management (MTM)...
During a visit to a large 340B hospital last month, we were surprised to discover that ...
Implementing processes to lower your hospital’s readmission rates is not only in ...
Outpatient pharmacy services can reduce one of the leading causes of hospital readmission: patien...
The term financial toxicity describes how out-of-pocket (OOP) costs can cause financial problems ...
Financial Advocacy Programs assist hospitals, infusion centers, and cancer care clinics gain acce...
A quick-reference guide for oncology practices to identify cancer patients at risk of financial t...
Qualifying for free medication for expensive oral or infusion drugs is easier than most expect. I...
A breakdown of copay accumulators and copay maximizers for oncology practices to help patients be...
The Inaugural Survey of Infusion Copay Cards The Inaugural Survey of Copay Manufacturer Programs ...
The step-by-step method Q Consulting Support Services (QCSS) uses to process manufacturer copay c...
A how-to-guide to troubleshoot financial advocacy for cancer infusion center patients facing fina...
GI infusions for diseases like Crohn’s Disease are often required monthly and can be financ...
The negative impact of financial toxicity associated with cancer treatment related out of pocket ...
Hospitals can improve infusion center profitability by focusing on one area – the Insurance...
How hospitals and oncology centers can reduce bad debt through Patient Assistance Programs, Copay...
How QCSS was able to help Michael with $42,000 of medication costs Patient Overview: Michael Mich...
How QCSS was able to secure over $16,000 in financial advocacy for this patient Patient Overview:...
Patient Financial Experience The patient financial experience within the U.S. Healthcare System i...
Foundation Assistance for Chronic or Life-Altering Diseases Foundations offer financial assistanc...
What is a Copay Assistance Program? As healthcare costs continue to rise, patients are looking fo...
As more and more hospitals begin to wonder if a specialty pharmacy is right for them, t...
With a few exceptions, hospitals have been late to the game in the development of specialty pharm...
The answer: It depends As more hospitals and health systems move into the specialty pharmacy...
Specialty Pharamcy Growth Specialty pharmacy has exploded from a niche industry catering to a ver...
There are many benefits for a healthy system that operates their own specialty pharmacy. One of t...
In the past decade, specialty pharmacies have become the fastest growing segment of the pharmaceu...
Generally, accreditation is not required for implementation of specialty services, but in some ca...
The answer: It depends As more hospitals and health systems move into the specialty pharmacy...
Specialty drug manufacturers will often limit the number of specialty pharmacies that c...
Hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers have traditionally looked at themselves as transaction...
It’s no surprise that the health care industry is constantly transforming. 2017 pioneered new inn...
Patient care processes needs to evolve to assure safety and effective use of specialty pharmaceut...
Specialty pharmacies typically operate in one of three approaches to patient care; traditional, c...
There are many factors to consider when developing a specialty pharmacy program. To help get...
The Specialty Pharmacy segment is seeing a lot of interest from hospital systems – one reas...
Health Systems Can Shine when it comes to Specialty Pharmacy Health systems are beginning to play...
Pharmacies face a new chore as they look to transition from their traditional business models to ...
Post-discharge outcomes are an increasing focus for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Hospi...
In recent years, specialty pharmacies began adopting a more comprehensive approach to patient car...
There has been a significant jump in hospital-owned specialty pharmacies in the last two years, h...
Hospitals have been late entrants into the specialty pharmacy business, which is mostly domi...
Specialty Pharmacies are becoming of much greater interest to hospital systems. In 2016, about 1 ...
Q Consulting Services has been working with Jefferson Healthcare, a Critical Access Hospital in P...
Not only are hospitals starting to act more consumer-centric, they are beginning to loo...
One question that we regularly receive from hospitals who are looking to enter the Specialty...
Studies have shown that medication adherence is a critical factor in whether a patient ...
Specialty medications are the fastest growing segment of drug spending, with growth rates forecas...
Hospital-Owned Specialty Pharmacies have one significant competitive advantage over the large, na...
Tally your results. Hospitals typically fall into one of these three categories, use the category...
When analyzing the viability of a specialty pharmacy at your hospital, one of the first step...
Post-discharge outcomes are an increasing focus for hospitals and health systems, which are chall...
Pharmacies (like healthcare systems) all over the United States are dealing with three major tren...
Specialty pharmacies have become the next big thing for hospitals. Within the past decade, specia...
The Evolution of Telehealth Telehealth or telemedicine has come a long way in such a short time p...
Developing a telehealth program at your organization can be costly, time consuming and challengin...
From social media platforms changing the way we interact to online shopping, the internet has tra...
The shift from in-office care to telehealth is one that Q Consulting, amongst many others, made p...
Patients who have used electronic medical records are significantly more satisfied with their doc...
Traditionally, the medical system has been paid on a fee for service model that only considers pa...
As consumer-centric healthcare continues to evolve and patients look to convenience and cost as a...
Imagine being pregnant for the first time. You call your OB-GYN and schedule your very first mate...
Big data earned its name because of its volume, complexity, diversity and timeliness. The emergen...
What is Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)? Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), or teleohomecare, uses&...
Improving patient safety is one of the most effective ways to add value to your healthcare organi...
Until recently, the majority of a hospital’s tech investments have been for clinical users ...
As we continue to transition into a digital world, health care organizations have been investing ...
As consumer-centric healthcare continues to evolve and patients look to convenience and cost as a...
This is the second post in a series of blogs on the growing importance of retail clinics and urge...
Most of us are members of at least one loyalty program. My Starbucks app, my credit card rewards,...
Every year, senior hospital executives go through the process of determining what your system wil...
Developing a telehealth program at your organization can be costly, time consuming and challengin...
Looking at patient’s as ‘consumers’ is a new concept for hospitals, and many ar...
The healthcare industry has a lot to learn from other consumer centric industries such as retail ...
Consumer segmentation is standard practice in industries like banking and retail, with the output...
Patient segmentation is a critical element in understanding how to attract new patients to your h...
The healthcare industry is evolving from a relatively static connection of care to one that embra...
Healthcare savvy individuals are beginning to look more like consumers than just patients. Patien...
Background The first retail health clinic opened in Minnesota in 2001 after a father, and future ...
In 2015, the healthcare industry spent just under $10 billion in advertisement. With numbers like...
The healthcare landscape is quickly changing to a consumer-centric business model. Providers need...
Hospitals have begun to realize, that to remain competitive in a rapidly shifting healthcare envi...
Walmart has had variable success when it comes to entering the healthcare market. It under-perfor...
Strategizing the patient financial experience is a top priority for hospitals and healt...
In 2000, healthcare costs were beginning to consistently rise. In 2009, the Kaiser Family Foundat...
Walgreens has recently announced an agreement with Verily, a data science and sister company of G...
Until recently, the majority of a hospital’s tech investments have been for clinical users ...
The way that individuals make their healthcare purchasing decisions is dramatically changing, and...
Value-based care has emerged as an alternative for fee-for-service reimbursement based ...
Research shows that a high number of people would change physicians because of location over pric...
We have written several articles on the importance of Consumer segmentation for Healthcare. It is...
Medicare patients make up the largest customer base for the United State’s hospitals and healthca...
An average of 3.6 million Americans miss their health care appointments every year because of unr...
Not only is the interest in value-based reimbursement (VBR) models growing, but the eff...
The focus on consumer-centric healthcare initiatives has found its way from hospitals t...
What will your health system look like in the next five to 10 years? Do you think the taxi indust...
As Tech Companies look to enter the healthcare space, they are tapping into the knowledge base of...
The rising cost of employee healthcare has been a hot topic lately. Amazon, Berkshire Hathaw...
It’s not surprise that the interest in value-based reimbursement (VBR) models are growi...
Consumer segmentation is a standard practice for marketers in most industries – but healthcare ha...
Value-based care has emerged as an alternative to fee-for-service reimbursement models. As y...
It makes sense for healthcare systems to start behaving like retailers when patients are increasi...
It’s time for your healthcare organization to think through your system’s consumer st...
Is your healthcare organization focusing enough on patient experience? Turns out that hospitals w...
onsumerism has been making its way into the healthcare industry. For the past decade, patients ha...
In case you missed it, two new pieces of legislation have been introduced to help fix the 340B di...
There has been a great deal of activity in the 340B contract pharmacy space in the last six years...
340B Eligible Hospitals should look for ways to leverage their outpatient pharmacy operation...
and population health management. Hospitals and health systems are seeking new revenue streams an...
The 340B discount drug program was designed to alleviate the large financial burden of costly pha...
340B Eligible Hospitals should look for ways to leverage their outpatient pharmacy operations to ...
In 1992, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) started the 340B discount drug p...
Many hospitals across the country breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Trump Administrati...
The 340B discount drug program can be highly beneficial for hospitals, especially ones that have ...
ongress created a federal drug discount program under Section 340B of the Public Health Service A...
More and more hospitals and health systems are considering building in-house outpatient pharmacie...
Remote monitoring can help prevent readmissions, allows patients to recover in the comfort of the...
Specialty pharmacy is on the leading edge of health care innovation, and health systems, particul...
Specialty pharmacy is on the leading edge of health care innovation, and health systems, particul...
