Virtual HTU: “Controlling Care in the Face of White Bagging”
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HealthTrust presents…Virtual HTU: “Controlling Care in the Face of White Bagging”
Shifts in payor reimbursement mandate certain infusion medications be acquired through outside pharmacies. Payors will not cover medications submitted under buy and bill, putting some IDNs at risk for millions of dollars annually. Use of outside pharmacy-dispensed infusion medications is known as white-bagging or third-party medication (3PM). This session will provide an overview of how one IDN’s Pharmacy Services used an EPIC electronic tool, available to all staff, to see the status of medication authorization and acquisition. The goal of the program is to enhance patient care, support front-line clinic staff, streamline scheduling, reduce waste and patient financial toxicity.
Learning Objectives | At the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Recall new payor requirements mandating that medications be acquired by outside pharmacies
- Recognize tools created electronically to support a transparent process for third party medications
- Identify strategies to minimize patient and organizational financial risk related to third party medications
Presenters:
Angela Rosenblatt, M.S., PharmD, BCPS, BCNSP, APh | Corporate Director of Pharmacy, Ambulatory Services | Scripps Health
Aaron Ginsberg, PharmD | Director of Centralized Pharmacy Services | Scripps Health
Rina Patrawala, PharmD, BCOP | Manager of Clinical Oncology Pharmacy Services | Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center
Target audience: Pharmacists
Continuing Education Information:
- Approved for Pharmacy credit
- Belmont University College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The ACPE Universal Activity Number for this activity is 0863-9999-22-061-L04-P. The activity is approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit to Pharmacists who attend the webinar and complete the online evaluation.
- Members who attended the live HTU event and applied for CE credit are not eligible to receive credit for the same program in a virtual format.
- If you plan to obtain credit for a live session, stay until the end of the presentation to receive the verification code you will need to obtain the continuing education credit. CE credit is individual. No group credit is available. Each person must register for a webinar and attend the webinar in its entirety in order to receive an email after the event with instructions on how to apply for continuing education credit. Attendees should not share the code or forward the email to others who did not actually attend the program. If they are not able to be verified on our webinar provider reports and registration list they will not receive credit. If you are joining only by phone, you will not be eligible for credit. You must also log in and join the visual portion of the webinar to be part of our CE provider-required reporting.
