Building on the 2025 national academies pharmacy workshop: ensuring access to community pharmacist care
Jennifer L Bacci, Stuart Beatty, John G Gums, Patricia H Fabel, Kyle Melin · 2026
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Jennifer Bacci and four co-authors argue for wider payment reform to expand care by community pharmacists. Use of medicines and chronic disease are rising while primary care faces provider shortages. Pharmacists can manage medicines and chronic disease and are easy to reach, yet payment rules still reward dispensing over direct care.
Building on a 2025 national workshop on pharmacy training and practice, the authors review state and federal payment policies. They urge broad reimbursement under the medical benefit, wide patient and service eligibility, and respect for state defined scope of practice. Fixes for health record access and credentialing are also needed. Joint reform, they argue, can make pharmacist care sustainable at large scale.
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| CREATOR | Jennifer L Bacci, Stuart Beatty, John G Gums, Patricia H Fabel, Kyle Melin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |