Specialty Pharmacy &
Accreditation Solutions
We Provide Strategic Support by Leveraging Accreditation
to Build Key Programs Driving Superior Clinical and Financial Outcomes.
Specialty Pharmacy and Industry Demands:
In the rapidly evolving healthcare sector, specialty pharmacies play a critical role in managing complex chronic diseases and improving both patient outcomes and financial performance. These pharmacies distinguish themselves through high-quality care, anchored by strict adherence to accreditation standards.
This commitment aligns with payer and manufacturer requirements, essential for:
- Inclusion in payer networks
- Access to manufacturer’s limited specialty drug distribution
As a result, accreditation has evolved from merely a distinguishing factor to a fundamental requirement in the specialty pharmacy industry.
Our Holistic Accreditation Solutions for Specialty Pharmacies:
At EK, we take a scientific approach to accreditation, applying a systematic methodology that ensures compliance while enhancing your specialty pharmacy services. By leveraging accreditation as a strategic tool, we build key programs that drive both accreditation success and business growth, laying a solid foundation for clinical and financial outcomes. This end-to-end support transforms your organization into a high-quality, thriving specialty pharmacy.
We collaborate closely with your team to develop and implement all accreditation-mandated programs, tailoring them to your organization’s unique needs.
Our Key Program Development and Implementation Includes:
- Clinical Patient Management Program Development: Develop integrated patient management programs within pharmacy software to minimize personnel time, maximize patient engagement, and ensure compliance with accreditation standards.
- Quality Management Program Development: Establish robust systems for continuous improvement, tailored to your unique needs and designed to enhance quality.
- Regulatory Compliance Management: Create compliance management systems that embed key program data directly into your pharmacy management software, streamlining data entry and unifying compliance processes.
Technology Integration and Optimization:
- Software Selection and Implementation: Identify and implement optimal software solutions to enhance operational efficiency and compliance.
Ongoing Support and Strategic Optimization:
- Continuous Operational Enhancement: Provide expert troubleshooting and solutions to optimize operations post-setup.
- Compliance and Quality Assurance: Utilize streamlined tools to maintain compliance and adapt practices to evolving standards.
- Financial and Clinical Efficiency: Apply lean pharmacy methods to improve clinical outcomes and financial performance, fostering strategic growth and sustainability.
Outcomes:
- We streamline processes, reduce the need for multiple platforms, save significant resources and staff time, and enable your team to focus on delivering high-quality patient care.
- This leads to operational efficiency and superior outcomes that can be effectively demonstrated to stakeholders, including payers and manufacturers, through comprehensive data reports.
Specialty Pharmacy Trends and Accreditation
The specialty pharmacy industry is poised for continued growth, with projections indicating a significant increase in demand due to the rise of complex chronic conditions and the development of advanced biologic and specialty medications.
Since accreditation demonstrates the highest standards of care and service quality, strict adherence to these standards aligns with payer and manufacturer requirements, making accreditation a fundamental requirement for securing payer contracts and accessing specialty medications.
Strategic Guidance for Selecting and Navigating the Accreditation Process
Navigating the complex landscape of specialty pharmacy accreditation is crucial for organizations seeking payer network inclusion and access to manufacturers’ limited distribution drugs. This process involves selecting the right accreditation, such as URAC or ACHC, each offering distinct standards and benefits.
Assessment of Strategic Alignment: Our principal consultant will:
- Evaluate how each accreditation aligns with your organization’s strategic goals.
- Determine which accreditation best supports your long-term objectives.
- Assess your organization’s current readiness for accreditation.
- Identify any gaps that need to be addressed before proceeding.
Next Steps: Schedule a consultation with our principal consultant to explore the best accreditation strategy for your organization.
Client Reviews
EK consultant helped us develop our distinguished Patient Management (PM) program, specifically tailored to our business model, our current operations including our software programs. We were able to build a platform in our software program without purchasing an additional clinical program platform which would have cost tons and double our personnel time in order to manage two different programs. Our disease specific PM program is highly effective and covers every single accreditation requirement. This program saves our pharmacist a tremendous amount of time as well as our patient time to complete all clinical activities. With our program, we were able to perform clinical assessments for over 400 patients for the past 3 months for our 2020,2021 active patients.
EK consultant helped us develop an exceptional clinical patient management program and build the patient record system in our pharmacy software. It is a highly effective program that allows us to take excellent care of our specialty patients by using specific disease protocols. It is perfectly streamlined to our operations. As an important part of our marketing strategies, we introduce our PM program to our patients and to the providers, including physicians and hospital case managers.
With EK’s principal consultant, we were able to build our clinical patient management program tailored to our pharmacy software. We are sure our PM program will bring exceptional value to our patients and to our specialty pharmacy business and we expect the clinical and financial outcomes, patient, provider and our pharmacist’s satisfaction will be significantly improved. We are very proud of our unique clinical Patient Management program and thankful for the clinical, regulatory, technical guidance EK principal consultant provided. Thank you for all your support! We wouldn't be where we are without it.
