Payment/Reimbursement

This issue brief is part of a series that covers topics and issues essential to the successful implementation and advancement of team-based clinical pharmacy practice. It summarizes the currently understood and emerging payment methods for medication management and related patient care services that clinical pharmacists commonly provide in team-based care settings (www.accp.com/paib1)

The information contained in these issue briefs can be useful in both initial and ongoing discussions and decisions about the scope of services and collaborative practice responsibilities of clinical pharmacists, particularly when physicians or medical administrators are exploring or being encouraged to consider incorporating or expanding clinical pharmacists within practices. (www.accp.com/paib3)