8.5 hours of content eligible for CPE credits + 3-day ALIE for $3000
If you're a pharmacist who wants to leverage their skills, collaborate with other healthcare practitioners, and give their patients so much more, then sign up for our ALIE course today.
Contact info@avantinstitute.com if 2 participants are from the same pharmacy for a discount coupon code on the second purchase. Additionally, if you have purchased our Clinical Collaborative Track: Discovery Edition (CCTDE) bundle, please contact us in advance to receive a discount code for the amount that was paid for this track. This bundle is included in the cost of the ALIE.
The ALIE Course is an immersive and intensive learning experience that includes 3 days of working with real patient cases, learning valuable skills, and participating in clinic scenarios. We want to streamline and optimize Pharmacist-led Collaborative Clinical Services to get patients around the country better, more effective, and professional healthcare. If you are seeking to change how pharmacists and medical providers provide care to patients with a sustainable business model in value-based care this is the course for you!
Some of the things the ALIE Course offers to give you the very best learning experience:
* 8 Hours of ACPE-accredited CPE Pre-Work * 3-Days of An Intimate and Immersive Experience * Virtual Course- No Travel Costs and In the Comfort of Your Home * Practice sessions with Real Patient Cases * Clinic Scenarios to Kick-Start Your Journey Beyond Dispensing * Online Q&A Features * Polling Questions * Additional Interactive Content
Gain an in-depth understanding of contract proposals, business planning, strategic assessments of both the medical practice and your pharmacy, Collaborative Practice Agreements, Medical Provider Collaborative Clinical Services and see firsthand how a pharmacist's clinical activities directly impact quality measures such as MIPS, HEDIS and more!
Learn how to go beyond the codes and maximize clinical services, market your value & show your impact to providers. Develop business planning strategies for internal and external success and sustainability. MOST IMPORTANTLY, practice your documentation and learn about platforms used for documentation of these services. Practice your value proposition and switch your approach from a sales pitch to a real connective conversation with a medical practice.
ENROLL NOW! SPACE IS LIMITED.
REGISTRATION WILLCLOSE ON JULY 29, 2020.
PLEASE NOTE: THE 8+ HOURS OF PREWORK IS A PREREQUISITE FOR THE ALIE. ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST COMPLETE THE PREWORK PRIOR TO THE FIRST DAY OF THE TRAINING.
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Theory
You're not signing up for 3-days of lecture and theory. Throughout the ALIE, you will be immersed in the work using real-life practical cases and engaged in conversations with our innovations team.
Topic Highlights:
Impacting Quality Measures
Collaborative Practice Agreement and Clinical Services Agreement
Medical Provider Collaborative Clinical Services: Annual Wellness Visits, Chronic Care Management, Transitional Care Management, Remote Patient Monitoring, and Behavioral Health Integration
Deeper Dive into AWV Add-on Services and Billing Rules: Tobacco Cessation Counseling, Behavioral Counseling for Alcohol Misuse, Behavioral Counseling for STI Prevention, Advance Care Planning, IBT for Cardiovascular Disease, IBT for Obesity, etc
Medical Coding and Billing
Incident-to Billing
Marketing Your Value
Business Planning
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Implementation
Immerse yourself in a medical practice setting where you put all your new skills to the test. These experiences are dispersed throughout the 3-days to ensure that you're comfortable using the new tools from your toolbox.
Simulation #1: Providing the Services
Patient case #1: Annual Wellness Visit
Patient case #2: Chronic Care Management
Practice your documentation
Use your patient cases and billing chart to code for your visit
Simulation #2: Clinic Management Setting
Engage the 'gate keeper' of the medical practice
Connect the dots with an open and honest conversation to a practice/practice manager that shows how your services fill their needs
Explain how your services differ from the competition
Learn how to articulate your value and answer the question 'Why pharmacists?'
Following the patient cases, verbalize your impact on quality measures to the practice
Simulation #3: Financial Sustainability and Business Planning
Perform an analysis on your current business
Calculate the potential revenue from a patient population and create a business proposal
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Frequently Asked Questions
1. How is the virtual Advanced Learning Immersion Experience (ALIE) different from the onsite ALIE?
The content for our virtual ALIE is the same as the material we present onsite in Charlotte, but we will be modifying the delivery to enhance the online experience. We will be engaging all participants through the online Q&A features, polling questions, and additional interactive content. We have also planned for recreating our individual experiences. For example, we have one-on-one rotations on the third day that will be hosted via virtual rooms to ensure that your personal time is not interrupted.
2. Is the CCTDE pre-work required?
Prior to the training, we require that everyone completes the Clinical Collaborative Track: Discovery Edition (CCTDE) pre-work as this is a prerequisite for the ALIE. This bundle includes over 8 hours of content that is eligible for CPE credits and covers the following topics: Provider Quality Measures, Medical Billing, Annual Wellness Visits, Non-Face-to-Face Services (CCM, RPM, and BHI), and Pharmacy Management of Major Chronic Disease States. The reason we created this pre-work was due to the feedback we received from previous participants. Many reported feeling overwhelmed with the amount of information covered during the training that by the time it came to implement on day 3, they had not yet digested the information from day 1 and 2. For this reason, we moved this content to serve as pre-work for our training so we can focus on the true implementation of services. Our goal is for you to feel comfortable with all components of pitching, conducting, documenting, and tracking clinical services. We have seen great success with the pre-work and participants report feeling much more prepared to implement. This being said, participants who do not complete the pre-work will likely not be prepared for the ALIE material so it is in your best interest as well as the interest of other participants if you complete this by the deadline. We request that all participants complete this prior to August 2, 2020. Once you register for the ALIE, you will receive a notice that you are also registered for the pre-work bundle. The content for the pre-work can be accessed on each individual pre-work course.
3. What does the 3-day training look like?
During our onsite delivery, the training lasts the full 8 hours for each of the three days of training. We have breaks scheduled throughout the day for mental breaks as well as lunch and we would replicate the same schedule for our virtual training. Before we jump into each section of the training, we review and summarize content from the pre-work and then focus on the implementation of material. Part of this includes sharing our stories, pitfalls and failures included, to ensure that you are prepared to take on these real-world challenges. Many of our previous attendees have reported that the stories are what stick with them and help them better understand how to make these models not only clinically successful but also financially sustainable. We focus on simulations, cases, modeling, and additional active learning exercises. You will have access to all materials, including handouts, articles, links, and presentation slides.
4. What is the cost of the training?
The cost of the virtual ALIE is $3000, which is a savings of $500 from the cost of the onsite training. This cost includes the 8+ hours of pre-work that is eligible for CPE credit (sold separately for $499). We invest in our training programs and have been continuously revamping the ALIE since it was first launched in November 2017. We update the content to reflect changes in the industry, recent challenges that we have encountered, as well as new ways to innovate. We are dedicated to continuously testing new services and models to ensure that our teachings come from experience, which makes the content much more worthwhile to our participants.
5. What support is provided after the training?
We have built out subscription models for those that want additional support following the training. This includes updates from CMS, new codes and requirements, access to weekly office hours, discounts on additional courses and consultations as well as monthly content from our instructor team. Additionally, we encourage our participants to stay connected and keep each other up-to-date on progress. We have had over 130 pharmacists from across the country complete our ALIE training and we have seen success in a variety of settings. We invite all of our previous ALIE graduates to stay engaged on our social media platforms as well as through our community board on the website.
6. Why can't I see the content yet?
The content is set to drip-feed based on the day of the training. For example, content relevant to day will release on the first day of the training as to not overwhelm participants with the handouts and resources available on the course.
7. How is this training different from programs that you offer in collaboration with other organizations?
We offer training programs with many organizations but no training is as in-depth and comprehensive as our ALIE. This ALIE course focuses on the collaborative clinical services and everything that is required to start offering clinical services. Some of our participants have referred to this training as a turn-key course because we talk through all the details of the WHY, HOW, and WHAT of clinical services. It is important to understand the codes and requirements for those codes but it is more important to understand the language and background behind sharing the value of pharmacist-led clinical services. Our team has been offering collaborative clinical services since 2013 and we infuse our years of experience into this 3-day training. There really is nothing quite like this training and this is one reason why our instructor team is so passionate about sharing our stories. Many of our other programs are meant to be exploratory courses where we share the many pathways that pharmacists can pursue for clinical services in both the pharmacist-billed and provider-billed settings.
8. Who should take this training?
Our collaborative ALIE is meant for those seeking to establish, strengthen, or transform collaborative clinical services. We have had pharmacists from a variety of settings at the ALIE and we encourage this program for independent pharmacists, consultant pharmacists, ambulatory care pharmacists, and more. People have had success in pitching to ACOs, independent providers, and hospital systems after attending our training. Additionally, we have had doctors, dentists, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare professionals in attendance at our this program to better understand how pharmacist-led clinical services can impact their organizations. We often receive the question on if multiple participants should attend the training, often in the case of non-pharmacist owners. The answer is yes in many cases because we have found that owners may participate in provider pitches and the development of the goals for the clinical program. Some of the information is more geared towards those who will be working on the business development while other content has a stronger clinical focus, but exposure to all material helps participants better understand the entire model.
What people are saying
"If you are interested in moving away from dispensing, you MUST take this class! This is finally the way you learn how to actually use the clinical info that you’ve learned in school and turn it into revenue!"
FEB 2020 ALIE GRAD
"Great course, such an eye opener to abilities on what pharmacist can do that wasn’t explored before!"
FEB 2020 ALIE GRAD
"This program is very innovative and every pharmacist should learn about this."
OCT 2019 ALIE GRAD
"[The] ALIE course is a life changer in any pharmacist's career. It opened my eyes on new opportunities that I can use my clinical services while making profit. The future of the pharmacy profession is not in dispensing prescriptions anymore. It is more in the clinical side and [the] ALIE is the best source for this knowledge."
OCT 2019 ALIE GRAD
"These past three days have been so rigorously rewarding! Amina, Olivia and their team have obviously seen countless hours prepping materials and scenarios to help prepare fellow pharmacists for this new, innovative collaborative approach. I am most excited for the endless possibilities I am now more equipped for in order to better serve my patients and community."
MAY 2019 ALIE GRAD
"One of the best workshops I have ever attended! All of the questions I had about how does this work in the real world were answered. I totally understood why I was told during phone conferences that I needed to come to the training. This can not be explained in a phone call, no matter how long the call. You have to see it!"
MAY 2019 ALIE GRAD
"If you are a community pharmacist who wants to get in on the ground floor of this professions future, look no further than Avant Institute. Avant will guide you and give you all of the tools you need to transform your practice and bring tremendous value to the biggest pot of medicare dollars. Doing well AND doing good can finally exist together. THANKS AVANT!!!"
MAR 2019 ALIE GRAD
"This is a great opportunity, not only for independent pharmacy owners, but for any individual pharmacist who would like to perform clinical work and utilize clinical skills. This opportunity gives flexibility for those who do not have the 40 hrs working for big chain, especially Moms with children!"
MAR 2019 ALIE GRAD
Created by
Amina Abubakar
Charlotte, NC
Amina Abubakar graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy University of the Sciences in 2005. She is the owner and manager of Rx Clinic Pharmacy in Charlotte, NC.
She is a clinical pharmacist, Certified HIV Specialty Pharmacist, a preceptor to UNC Chapel Hill residents and students from several schools of pharmacy. She has fostered an environment that showcases the significance and impact on patient care of community pharmacists by collaborating with Physicians and expanding pharmacist led clinical services in her community.
Currently, she shares her passion for pharmacy advancements with pharmacists, patients and policy makers all over the country through Pharmacogenomics. She was invited to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and to the FDA to discuss the Rxight™ pharmacogenetic program, which she has been involved in creating with MD Labs, in support of President Obama’s Precision Medicine initiative.
She was the PDS Pharmacist of the Year in 2012 and Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015.
Olivia Bentley
Charlotte, NC
Olivia Bentley received her Doctorate of Pharmacy from South University School of Pharmacy in Savannah in 2012 and completed a PGY1 Community Residency Program at the University of Georgia with Village Drug Shop in Athens, GA in 2013.
Currently, she is the Director of Ambulatory Care Services at Rx Clinic Pharmacy where she co-developed and implemented a variety of non-dispensing, cognitive-based clinical services in an independent community pharmacy. Through physician collaboration, she leads a team of clinical community pharmacists in providing Medicare annual wellness visits, chronic care management, and more.
Dr. Bentley is a Board Certified HIV Pharmacist. She is also experienced as a Certified BHRT pharmacist, Therapeutic Shoe Fitter for patients with diabetes and Certified in Pharmacogenetics and Precision Medicine.
She currently serves the profession of pharmacy on the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP) as the Chair of the New Practitioner Network and remains active in many local, state and national professional organizations such as NCPA, APhA and Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity.