1. Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
General Meeting
Tuesday September 23th , 2014

2. Agenda Welcome What is AMCP? P&T Competition Philanthropy Membership
AMCP website
Raffle

3. Executive Board 2014-2015 President – Divya Donthi
VP External – Jay Sheth
VP Internal – Kim Pham
Director of Finance – Jennifer Nguyen
Directors of Membership – Eileen Tran & Linh Nguyen
Directors of Philanthropy – Jennah Devoll & Kevin Giang
Directors of Conference – Kamon Farmer & Jane Lee

4. What Do You Think of When You Hear “Managed Care”?

5. What Is Managed Care?
AMCP Mission: To empower its members to serve society by using sound medication management principles and strategies to improve healthcare for all.
“Managed care is an organized approach to health care delivery that seeks to improve the quality and accessibility of health care—including medication therapy—in a cost-effective manner.”
Source: AMCP
Mapping Your Career In Managed Care Pharmacy

6. Interconnectedness of Inputs and Outcomes
Drug Cost
Patient Safety
Medical Cost
Drug Choice
Patient Satisfaction
Drug Effectiveness
Increasingly, managed care is outcomes based – we are always looking for evidence about patient outcomes.
What this interconnectedness also shows us is that there are many opportunities for YOU – because no matter what you like to do, there are places in the process to intervene to help the patient who is at the center of all these efforts.
HR-QoL
Drug Side Effects
Enrollment

7. What Types of Organizations Hire Managed Care Pharmacists?
Health plans/insurance companies
Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) companies
Benefit design consulting firms
Self-insured employers
Disease management and specialty pharmacy
Pharmaceutical manufacturers
Government (VA, Dept of Defense)

8. What do Managed Care Pharmacists do?
Drug Distribution and Dispensing
Patient Safety (DUR/PA)
Clinical Program Development (MTM)
Communication between Patients, Pharmacists, Prescribers (education)
Drug Benefit Design (Formularies)
Business Management (drug discounts)
Cost Management

9. Example Job Positions
Director of Pharmacy
Drug Information Specialist (monographs)
Clinical Pharmacy Manager
Staff Pharmacist (in HMOs)
Clinical Pharmacist
Call Center Pharmacist

10. What’s the P&T Competition?
P&T Committee
Develops and manages the formulary system that is utilized by managed health care systems
Evaluate scientific evidence
Weigh impact on patient population
Conduct cost/benefit analyses
Relate drug therapy to practice guidelines

11. The P&T Competition will not be held this year…

12. Drug Information Specialist Competition
Introducing the first annual Drug Information Specialist Competition (DISC)!
Hosted by the AMCP P&T Committee
Designed to be a modified version of the P&T Competition
Simpler version with the same opportunities to practice monograph analysis and drug research

13. Drug Information Specialist Competition
Background: Hospital is adding a new medication to their formulary
Participants have 3 new medications (of the same class) to choose from
Monographs of each medication and drug pricing from the Red Book will be provided. Electronic resources will be accepted
Analyze monographs and electronic resources and choose the best drug
Participants will have 45 minutes to research and then give a minute presentation to faculty

14. Drug Information Specialist Competition
More details to come
Date: TBD. Projected date sometime in Winter Quarter!
Keep your ears open for new information regarding the competition!

15. Why should I participate?
Great opportunity if you want to:
Get involved!
Practice useful analytical skills!
Get a deeper understanding of managed care pharmacy!
Prizes!
Run for Director of Conference position for next year!

16. How else can you get involved?

17. AMCP Events St. Mary’s Canned Food Drive (10/01/14-?)
Making Strides Walk (10/25/14)
Safe Halloween (Late October)
Blood Drive (Winter Quarter)
ALA Fight for Air Walk (April)
TOPS (Spring/Summer Quarter)

18. Please drop non-perishable donations in boxes located around campus!
St Mary’s Food Drive
When: Mon, 10/1 - Fri, 10/31 or ?????? (Pharmacy Month & Holiday Season)
Co-sponsored by CPFI & Kappa Psi
Where: Locations TBA
Please drop non-perishable donations in boxes located around campus!

19. Making Strides American Cancer Society 22.3 mile walk
When: October 25th, 2014 (Pharmacy Month & Breast Cancer Awareness Month)
Where: Tempe Beach Park
Possible volunteer opportunities: first aid tent, water stations, cheerers/greeters etc.
Co-sponsored by Kappa Epsilon

20. Safe Halloween When: Late October (before Halloween)
Where: Midwestern University Ramada/ Lawn
Last year: AMCP partnered with Kappa Psi to educate parents and children about poisonous substances in their households

21. If you have any questions…
Please
Jennah DeVoll
Kevin Giang

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26. New Membership = $45

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28. Forward Confirmation Email
Please forward your confirmation to
Eileen Tran
Linh Nguyen

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32. YOU
can become part of our team!!

33. Questions?

34. RAFFLE!!