May 14-16, 2020 : Advanced Learning Immersion Experience: FQHC Track
Our intimate group intensive 3-day immersion experience includes a crash course in Pharmacist-led Collaborative Clinical Services for the FQHC and practice sessions with real patient cases and clinic scenarios to kickstart your journey beyond dispensing.
Gain an in-depth understanding of collaborative clinical services and see firsthand how a pharmacist's clinical activities directly impact quality measures within the FQHC model!
Learn how to go beyond the codes and maximize clinical services, share your value & show your impact to providers. Develop program planning strategies for internal and external success and sustainability. MOST IMPORTANTLY, practice documentation with a real EHR and get feedback from our instructor team. Practice your value proposition and fine-tune your approach to highlight your value to stakeholders.
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Theory
We begin our program with two days of training on a number of topics in the classroom setting.
Topic Highlights:
Understanding why pharmacists are valuable to the health center beyond dispensing
Why pharmacist-led clinical services impact the CMS Quadruple aim and other payer initiatives and team-based care
Medical Provider Collaborative Clinical Services: Annual Wellness Visits, Chronic Care Management, Transitional Care Management
Medical Billing Basics and Payment Models in FQHC/RHC; Aligning Services to Impact Patient
Outcomes, Quality Metrics, and Payment
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
Strategies for implementation and business sustainability; performing an internal and external needs assessment; communicate the value of a pharmacist to the rest of the health center
Marketing Your Value
Diversifying Your Clinical Team; Checklist and Challenges from Pilot Programs to Sustainable Programs; Practice through Business Plan Cases
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Implementation
Immerse yourself in a medical practice setting where you put all your new skills to the test.
Simulation #1: Providing the Services
Patient case #1: Annual Wellness Visit
Patient case #2: Chronic Care Management
Patient case #3: Transitional Care Management
Use your patient cases and billing chart to code for your visit and practice documentation
Documentation will be graded and feedback will be provided by:
Expert team of instructors with the Avant Institute
Simulation #2: Clinic Management Setting
Workflow Development; Pharmacist-led
Clinical Service Program Analysis; Monitoring and Following Up on Your Program
Create Personalized Action Plan with Our Implementation Specialists
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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.
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