Another blow to clinical pharmacy

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CVS is opening 1,500 health hubs in the next 2 years. But they will be staffed by a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant, not by a pharmacist.

CVS to open 1,500 HealthHUB stores over next two years

CVS will open 1,500 HealthHUB stores by the end of 2021, the company announces ahead of its investor day. These stores are remodeled drugstores that focus more on health services and products and less on candy and greeting cards.

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Since CVS also own Aetna, reimbursement is no longer a big issue. We have been talking about clinical pharmacy since the 1970s but where is the result? Why pay a pharmacist salary, when you can pay a nurse practitioner, who can also prescribe, at half the pharmacist rate?

 

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CVS is opening 1,500 health hubs in the next 2 years. But they will be staffed by a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant, not by a pharmacist.

CVS to open 1,500 HealthHUB stores over next two years

CVS will open 1,500 HealthHUB stores by the end of 2021, the company announces ahead of its investor day. These stores are remodeled drugstores that focus more on health services and products and less on candy and greeting cards.

www.google.com

Since CVS also own Aetna, reimbursement is no longer a big issue. We have been talking about clinical pharmacy since the 1970s but where is the result? Why pay a pharmacist salary, when you can pay a nurse practitioner, who can also prescribe, at half the pharmacist rate?

Last I checked, NP/PA salary is about the same as a full-time RPh. If you train more PharmD's to distance themselves from traditional dispensing responsibilities, who will be in charge of the meds? Are you suggesting a model where PharmD's prescribe & dispense meds? I feel like there would be some sort of conflict. I am okay with this siloed approach where NP/PA are masters of their trade and PharmDs a master of theirs.

 

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CVS is opening 1,500 health hubs in the next 2 years. But they will be staffed by a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant, not by a pharmacist.

CVS to open 1,500 HealthHUB stores over next two years

CVS will open 1,500 HealthHUB stores by the end of 2021, the company announces ahead of its investor day. These stores are remodeled drugstores that focus more on health services and products and less on candy and greeting cards.

www.google.com

Since CVS also own Aetna, reimbursement is no longer a big issue. We have been talking about clinical pharmacy since the 1970s but where is the result? Why pay a pharmacist salary, when you can pay a nurse practitioner, who can also prescribe, at half the pharmacist rate?

Can a PA or NP order a course of meds ..say #30 Amoxicillin...and then hand them over? I suppose it depends on the state..