I was proud to co-author this Health Affairs Forefront blog, published on September 9, 2022, with Curtis Haas, M. Shawn McFarland, Marie Smith, Katherine H. Capps, and M. Isabella Serji.

Key phrases from the blog:

• Health care practitioners and leaders share a common goal to provide exceptional care for patients.
• Equitable and accessible care must ensure appropriate, optimal use of medications since 68.7 percent of clinician visits involve drug therapies.
• Comprehensive medication management (CMM) is a systematic approach through which physicians and clinical pharmacists ensure that medications are individually assessed to determine that each medication is appropriate for the patient, effective for the medical condition, safe given the comorbidities and other medications being taken, and able to be taken by the patient as intended.
• CMM can drive improvements in a wide range of quality metrics used to support value-based payment (VBP) models for organizations currently operating under or preparing to engage in performance-based compensation arrangements.

Read the rest of the blog on Health Affairs Forefront.

Cite As: “Comprehensive Medication Management: A Missing Ingredient In Value-Based Payment Models”, Health Affairs Forefront, September 9, 2022.DOI: 10.1377/forefront.20220907.835484