APhA Policy Manual

Pharmacy Performance Networks

PHARMACY PRACTICE REIMBURSEMENT AND COMPENSATION

APhA supports performance networks that improve patient care and health outcomes, reduce costs, use pharmacists as an integral part of the health care team, and include evidence-based quality measures.
APhA urges collaboration between pharmacists and payers to develop distinct, transparent, fair, and equitable payment strategies for achieving performance measures associated with providing pharmacists’ patient care services that are separate from the reimbursement methods used for product fulfillment.
APhA advocates for prospective notification of evidence-based quality measures that will be used by a performance network to assess provider and practice performance. Furthermore, updates on provider and practice performance against these measures should be provided in a timely and regular manner.
APhA supports pharmacists’ professional autonomy to determine processes that improve performance on evidence-based quality measures.