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One of the most wonderful parts of bringing clinical services and medical billing to the forefront of the pharmacy is working with visionary pharmacists who see the vision and push our industry forward. We’d like to shine a spotlight on our customer Katie Bass — she and her pharmacy Yosemite Drug in Coarsegold, CA are featured in this year’s NCPA Digest as a clinical leader pushing our entire industry forward. The Digest just released, and it’s a big deal — it authoritatively summarizes the state of the industry in an approachable and exciting way. As she states in her feature, “You have to know what your community needs and how you can step up and help out.” We’re honored to work with pharmacists like Katie who deeply understand their communities and fearlessly take on new opportunities to help meet their needs. #LetUsPrescribe #PharmacistsProvideCare Check out Katie’s full feature in the 2024 NCPA Digest: https://lnkd.in/eE3yQhR3

Flu season is peaking — and it’s the most intense one in the past 15 years, according to new CDC data. Doctors’ visits driven by flu-like symptoms haven’t hit volumes this high in publicly available CDC data since 2009-2010. (Obviously, 2020-22 were also high-watermark years for patients seeking medical care for upper respiratory symptoms, but primarily for COVID-19). Fortunately, a doctors’ office isn’t the only place patients can visit seeking protection from influenza or relief from symptoms. Scripted pharmacies have been peaking right alongside winter viruses, providing a greater volume of vaccinations, upper respiratory tests, and prescription treatments like Theraflu and Paxlovid than in our company’s history. And that’s not all: patients who get treatments from Scripted pharmacies are waiting less time to get their treatment, and paying less, too. Join the Scripted movement and transform your pharmacy into a flu season care destination: scripted.co/pharmacists #LetUsPrescribe #pharmacistsprovidecare Source: https://lnkd.in/dquFTJAK

Wait… we performed more test-to-treat visits in the last 30 days than ALL OF Q4?! At the peak of cold + flu season, Scripted pharmacists hit a peak of their own — in January, our pharmacists performed more completed upper respiratory test-to-treat visits for patients than the previous 3 months combined. In fact, for the first time in Scripted history, upper respiratory test-to-treat eclipsed ALL VACCINES COMBINED as this month’s most popular treatment on Scripted. For every one vaccine visit, we performed 4 test-to-treat visits ?? This growth explosion is more than just exciting for us — it’s exciting for our pharmacists, who just unlocked all these testing visits as a medical billing opportunity to increase their revenue. And, of course, it’s exciting for patients who didn’t have to pay $200 to urgent care to get the care they need! The test-to-treat inflection point is officially here. Don’t get left behind — bring testing to your pharmacy and make more money with Scripted. scripted.co/pharmacists #LetUsPrescribe #PharmcistsProvideCare?

Adhering to clinical protocols is critical — and Scripted ensures you do it right, every time. Our platform guides pharmacists through clinical protocols step-by-step, identifying potential contraindications and issues for manual review to ensure nothing is overlooked. Additionally, accredited CE courses and advanced clinical guidance are just a click away. Discover how Scripted can elevate your practice:?scripted.co/pharmacists?#LetUsPrescribe #PharmacistsProvideCare

A federal judge just made a major pro-pharmacist ruling in a class-action lawsuit brought by independent pharmacies, challenging CVS Caremark’s unfair PBM fees and arbitration practices. A group of pharmacists are currently in the process of trying a class action lawsuit, Osterhaus Pharmacy Inc. v CVS Health Corporation, against CVS CareMark. The potentially landmark case alleges antitrust violations, breaching good faith by manipulating fee metrics, and seeks remedies on behalf of pharmacists for unconscionable contracts and unpaid value for services provided. It’s a big deal. But there was a huge caveat: the pharmacy bringing forth the lawsuit had entered into a contract with CVS CareMark that contained an arbitration clause. This kind of clause in a contract requires parties to resolve disputes through closed-door arbitration instead of going to public court. Naturally, this kind of conflict resolution can benefit large corporations and shield them from liability. This was especially problematic in this case. CVS’s arbitration clause stated that their arbiter could even determine whether a claim was arbitrable AT ALL. In other words, the arbiter would have sole authority on whether these claims were even up for discussion. This could have been the death knell of this class action lawsuit. Fortunately, it wasn’t. Judge Tuchi stated that CVS’s delegation clause is “substantively unconscionable” (grossly unfair) and ruled it invalid. The court, not an arbitrator, will decide if the claims in this suit are subject to arbitration. This is likely not the outcome CVS CareMark hoped for, and further, opens the door for broader legal accountability and public scrutiny of CVS CareMark and the other big PBMs. Want to fight back against low reimbursement rates at your pharmacy? Bring medical billing to your pharmacy and ditch PBM's: scripted.co/pharmacists #LetUsPrescribe #PharmacyPaybackTime Source: https://lnkd.in/e4j7fi5w

Getting a CLIA waiver can unlock tons of revenue-generating testing options at your pharmacy. Need a waiver? It’s a few steps, but nothing too difficult. Unless you’re using Scripted, in which case, it’s 100% automated. Learn more about CLIA waivers in our ultimate guide: https://lnkd.in/eq5sxQUQ #LetUsPrescribe #pharmacistsprovidecare?

Here’s a huge concern about the future you may not have considered this week: an impending second Trump administration may have disastrous impacts on public health, pharmacy viability, and patient access to care (among other things). Let’s start with vaccines. In his 1939-style rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, President-Elect Trump stated he’d let former competitor Robert F. Kennedy Jr (RFK) “go wild on health” if elected.1 It’s important to remember that RFK Jr. is an ardent vaccine skeptic who has tirelessly pushed pseudoscientific claims, including the repeatedly debunked claim that vaccines are linked to autism.2 In fact, a Trump campaign co-chair stated directly that RFK Jr. wants access to federal data on health to question the safety of vaccines.3 It’s easy to imagine how increased vaccine hesitancy and potential challenges to access to certain kinds of vaccinations could harm both your pharmacy’s bottom line and the patients you serve. But that’s tragically only the start. A second Trump administration is also highly likely to set the Affordable Care Act in its targets, which threatens your patients’ access to affordable healthcare and insurance.? Patients without access to insurance or care in general are obviously less likely to seek prescriptions. Like many other Americans, members of the Scripted team have struggled to process the results of this election. We pride ourselves on our diversity, being a team of immigrants, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people. If the Trump administration moves forward with some revisions to American health policy, health outcomes could likely get worse for both patients and pharmacists, perhaps in challenging-to-predict ways. Processing that reality could be painful; we deserve to mourn that fact. But we can’t mourn for too long. It’s now more important than ever to remain vigilant to threats to our ability to provide quality care to patients wherever those threats may arise and to build community power and awareness to counter those threats. Even if you’re limited in what you can do, stay committed to caring for your patients and the industry—if you don’t, we’re truly hopeless.

If cold and flu season makes your pharmacists want to ?? SCREAM ??, get Scripted and be a test-to-treat superhero for Halloween. Tons of vaccines and new tests don’t have to be scary: Scripted automates and simplifies everything from appointment booking to administration to marketing. (Trying to guess whatever the heck your patient’s costume is supposed to be is still on you, but check back next year, maybe we’ll figure that one out.) I’m scared of call-to-action URLs so I hope one doesn’t pop out AAHHHHHHHH https://lnkd.in/eiu6_BQK #LetUsPrescribe #pharmacistsprovidecare

What’s better than one PBM antitrust investigation..? TWO! That’s right: senators are now calling for the FTC to open YET ANOTHER antitrust investigation into the Big PBMs. This is coming hot on the heels of an absolutely bananas countersuit by Express Scripts, alleging that the FTC’s bombshell report on their egregious business practices was like honestly really defamatory :( (Express Scripts would probably HATE if I reminded you that the FTC report revealed that PBMs like Express Scripts significantly inflate drug costs, sometimes by up to 40 times, while controlling nearly 80% of prescription management in the U.S., which gives them extensive influence over drug prices and access. Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the huge multinational corporations?!) Well, now, somebody is — Democratic senators Sherrod Brown and Ron Wyden, to be precise. Unfortunately for Express Scripts, what they’re thinking about is ANOTHER antitrust lawsuit, this time targeting the PBMs’ even bigger parent companies and the co-manufacturing agreements they’re creating. Two of the Big 3 PBMs have entered co-manufacturing agreements with the drugmakers they supposedly negotiate against to set drug prices. “[These agreements] are a veiled attempt by PBMs to control additional parts of the supply chain which has resulted in additional harm to consumers in the form of fewer drug choices and higher drug costs”, said senators Brown and Wyden in a letter to the FTC. After all the damage these greedy companies have done to our industry and our patients, it’s about time that these PBMs start facing this onslaught of scrutiny. From where we’re sitting, the biggest problem with endless FTC antitrust suits for PBMs would be us running out of popcorn. Wanna kick the big PBMs while they’re down? Bring Scripted to your pharmacy and bill vaccines and clinical services to medical insurance — and get paid more to do it: scripted.co/pharmacists Full coverage on this suit: https://lnkd.in/edgXK2sF #LetUsPrescribe #pharmacistsprovidecare #PharmacyPaybackTime

Exciting news for our colleagues in Chicago: our founder James Lott (PharmD., MPP) will be representing Scripted next week among eight selected startups to pitch at the 1871 x World Business Chicago Founder Pitch Showcase! If you're an investor or involved in the Chicago tech scene, I encourage you to attend and see us pitch our vision for the future of the pharmacy alongside some impressive hand-selected tech companies. ??? October 17th, 2024, 2-4PM RSVP: https://lu.ma/5wexdb5v #StartupShowcase #ChicagoTech #1871Chicago #LetUsPrescribe #PharmacyPaybackTime