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Vermont Pharmacists Association urges greater pharmacist role in primary care, warns of pharmacy closures
Summary
Lauren Bodie of the Vermont Pharmacists Association told the House Health Care Committee that pharmacists can improve outcomes and lower costs when involved in direct patient care, but reimbursement and pharmacy benefit manager practices threaten community pharmacies and service capacity.
Lauren Bodie, legislative liaison for the Vermont Pharmacists Association and a practicing pharmacist, introduced the association to the House Health Care Committee on Feb. 7 and urged the committee to consider expanding pharmacists’ roles in primary care and public-health services.
"Pharmacists are an essential part of our health care system," Bodie said. "We see treatment outcomes improve, patients are happier with their care, and the care costs the system less." She told the committee that pharmacists’ training focuses on choosing the right medication and managing patient care, not simply dispensing pills, and she cited research showing improved outcomes and lower costs when pharmacists are involved more directly in…
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