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HealthTrust presents…Virtual HTU: “It’s a Small Copay After All—Launching a Central MPAP (Medication Patient-Assistance Program) Team”

Patient copays are often a barrier to medication therapy. Limited resources within clinics, medical offices and pharmacies make it difficult to navigate the complicated processes around financial assistance and medication patient-assistance-programs (MPAP). Presenters will summarize the path to launching and maintaining a central MPAP team with specific examples and learnings from their journey. Discover why a MPAP team is of vital importance to patients, providers and organizations and identify a model to emulate.

Learning Objectives | At the end of this session, participants should be able to:

1. Recall potential financial barriers to medication therapy and patient care as well as the level of burden caused to providers and clinical staff.
2. Idenfity key steps in launching and maintaining a Central MPAP (Medication Patient-Assistance-Program) Team.
3. Recognize the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and business initiatives that can help sustain this an MPAP team.

Presenters:

Mai Borazjani, PharmD, APh, CSP  |   Pharmacist in Charge  |  Scripps Specialty Pharmacy  |  San Diego, California

Aaron Ginsberg, PharmD  |  Director of Centralized Pharmacy Services  |  Scripps Health  |  San Diego, California

Target Audience:  Pharmacy, Nursing & Healthcare Executives

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 0863-9999-24-086-L04-P. The activity is approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit to Pharmacists who attend the webinar and complete the online evaluation.
• Approved for Nursing CE. Pfiedler Education is a division of AORN, provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP13019, for 1 contact hour. 1.0 contact hours approved for Nurses.
• 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.