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Medication Synchronization: Program Acceptance and Initial Synchronization Rate

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Description

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The percentage of patients or their caregivers who have met the pharmacy criteria for medication synchronization who are contacted by the program, agree to participate and whose medications are initially synchronized.

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A higher rate indicates better performance.

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Additional Information

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Intended Use

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Quality improvement indicator for health plans.

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Data Sources

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Multiple sources that will be different for each pharmacy, such as:

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  • Pharmacy's internal transaction data, whether automated by pharmacy software, accessed via Excel spreadsheet, or maintained otherwise in pharmacy files.
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  • Claims data from the plan or switch.
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  • Hospital discharge data.
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  • First fill when the patient presents multiple meds that fit the "eligible patient" criteria.
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Denominator

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Individuals who have met the pharmacy's criteria for inclusion in the medication synchronization program and have been contacted by the pharmacy.

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Exclusions

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None.

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Numerator

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Individuals in the denominator who have been contacted about their participation in the med sync program; agree to participate within 30 days; and an initial medication sync has occurred.

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Rationale

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Medication synchronization allows the alignment of refill dates for all of a patient's chronic medications to a single date. This process serves as a built-in refill reminder and allows the consolidation of all the patient's medications to drive the efficient use of dose reminder packaging, if applicable. Medication synchronization also allows a pharmacy to adopt an appointment-based model to schedule patient care services around the pick-up or delivery date. A recent study of a community pharmacy-based medication synchronization program showed an additional 84 days of therapy, raising percent of days covered from the low 60-percentile to the mid 80-percentile range.

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To maximize medication adherence and have the greatest impact on relevant quality measures, providers should seek the most effective and efficient tactics for determining eligibility criteria, engaging eligible patients, enrollment and syncing. Since the goal of a QII is to help organizations continually improve performance internally, providers should accurately measure the effectiveness of each tool or tactic or combination of tools and tactics and quickly adopt the most effective ones.

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This QII enables the pharmacy to see how effectively they are engaging their target population in the medication synchronization program.

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