
Medication Therapy Management (MTM) is used to describe several clinical services provided to patients by the healthcare team’s medication expert, the pharmacist.
Services that are considered part of MTM include:
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A pharmacist meets via phone or face-to-face with the patient and thoroughly reviews their entire medication profile including over the counter medications and supplements. During this review, the patient’s understanding of their medication(s) is assessed, as well as adherence issues and potential medication problems. Follow-up communication between the pharmacist, the provider and patient will address any issues while increasing patient safety, understanding and adherence.
A patient’s insurance provider will note one specific issue such as late refills, unsafe medications or gap in therapy. The plan tasks the pharmacist to validate the issue and work with the patient and provider to correct it.
Experts estimate 1.5 million preventable adverse events occur each year that result in $177 billion in injury and death. (provided by the American Pharmacist’s Association APhA)
In all care settings where patients use medications. CMR and TMR are most often delivered by the patient’s outpatient retail pharmacist.
Any patient using medication or over the counter medications/supplements can benefit. Especially our patients with multiple chronic disease states, medications that require special monitoring (specialty medications or anticoagulants), patients using many medications possibly from multiple pharmacies or patients recently discharged from the hospital.