Why Your Prescription Pad Isn’t Enough
Medication non-adherence still drains $100 billion – $300 billion from U.S. health-care budgets every year and accounts for up to two-thirds of avoidable hospital admissions. Even the most precisely titrated therapy fails if the patient never starts—or quietly stops—taking it.
Community pharmacists are positioned to help, with more than 90 % of Americans living within five miles of a pharmacy. But not every pharmacy is built for true clinical collaboration. Here is what Al Excellence Pharmacy has engineered so you can hand off portions of medication management, regain clinic bandwidth, and still hit your quality metrics.
1. Appointment-Based Medication Synchronization (Med Sync)
Instead of fragmented refill dates, we align all chronic prescriptions to a single monthly “anchor” day and schedule a pharmacist phone or video touch-point 5–7 days beforehand.
- Evidence matters: Recent studies show that patients in synchronization programs are more than twice as likely to achieve ≥ 80 % adherence than those on usual care.
- What you’ll see: Fewer “urgent” refill requests, smoother prior-authorization renewals, and higher Part D star ratings for adherence.
2. Pharmacy-Led Transitions of Care
Hospital discharge is when half of medication changes are misunderstood or overlooked. Al Excellence assigns a dedicated transitions-of-care (TOC) pharmacist who:
- Receives discharge meds electronically.
- Calls the patient within 48 hours to reconcile therapy and screen for access barriers.
- Sends a concise medication-reconciliation note back through your EHR, flagging any discrepancies.
Pharmacy-supported TOC programs have cut 30-day readmissions by roughly one-third in multiple meta-analyses.
3. Collaborative Disease-State Clinics
Under state-approved Collaborative Practice Agreements (CPAs), our PharmDs manage protocol-driven titration for hypertension, diabetes, COPD, anticoagulation, and lipids—and document everything in your chart.
- CPAs create a formal, delegated care pathway that accelerates physician acceptance of pharmacist recommendations.
- Randomized trials show pharmacist-physician collaboration can lower systolic BP by an average of eight mm Hg and reduce A1C by 0.5 – 1.0 %.
4. Rapid, Bidirectional Communication
- EHR-integrated secure messaging (Epic CareEverywhere and CommonWell)
- Stat clinical questions answered the same business day
- Refill and PA teams embedded at the pharmacy so your staff spends less time on the phone
5. Meeting Patients Where They Are
- Free same-day delivery inside a 15-mile radius
- Curbside INR, A1C, and lipid testing with auto-routing of results
- Custom blister packs, large-print labels, and counseling in six languages
These access points reinforce the reality that the pharmacy is often your patient’s most frequent face-to-face health-care touch. When convenience goes up, adherence follows.
Quantifiable Benefits for Your Practice
- Boosted Adherence – Medication-synchronization programs raise the proportion of patients maintaining a proportion-of-days-covered (PDC) ≥ 80 % by about 130 %. Al Excellence delivers real-time adherence dashboards every month so you can watch that jump in your own panel.
- Fewer 30-Day Readmissions – Pharmacy-led transitions-of-care programs have reduced readmissions by roughly one-third. Our TOC liaison reconciles meds and uploads a note to your EHR within 48 hours, closing the loop before problems snowball.
- Better Blood-Pressure Control – Across randomized trials, collaborative pharmacist care drops systolic BP by 7–8 mm Hg on average. Under our CPA protocol we titrate medications and feed home-BP data straight into your chart, so you see numbers improve without an extra office visit.
Ready to De-Stress Your Workflow?
Fax initial prescriptions to +1 (732) 448-9444 or email info@alexcellencepharmacy.com for a 15-minute onboarding consultation. We’ll map out:
- Med-sync enrollment for your first ten high-risk patients
- Custom TOC notification preferences
- CPA service lines that match your panel’s needs
📍Al Excellence Pharmacy: keeping the right drug, at the right dose, in the right patient—after they leave your office.
