Basics about Collaborative Practice Agreements
Collaborative Practice Agreements create a practice relationship between the prescribers and the pharmacists. CPA is not only an ultimate condition for collaborative care delivery, but it can also enhance the effectiveness of care and help the pharmacists. CPA is responsible for expanding available services to patients, increasing patients’ access and generating new revenue for pharmacists.
There are also such factors that scare off the pharmacists to pursue this type of agreement. This article will let you know whether pharmacists should get a CPA and also the importance of dispensing physicians in this post-pandemic situation.
The Term - Collaborative Practice Agreements
This term is not used in every state of the U.S. In a few states, it is known as a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement or collaborative drug therapy management or consults” agreement. If the authority refers the prescriber to represent patient care functions beyond the usual scope of the pharmacists, then the authority is known as a collaborative practice agreement.
Do State Law Support This Agreement?
Keep in mind that not all state laws support the CPA the same way. According to the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations, licensed pharmacists can participate in a CPA only in 33 states. If your state permits this, then you can easily pursue a CPA.
How Can You Write a CPA?
There is no universal law for CPA but it specifies the treatment protocols, types of patients and disease states. These functions are also included under an agreement such as initiating new therapy, authorizing refills, reporting metrics, ordering laboratory tests and adjusting doses.
Advantages of a CPA
EPA plays an important role in increasing patients' access to care. Washington authorized the process first in 1979 and used collaborative drug therapy agreements in their care delivery system. In this process, the pharmacist can provide preventive care, chronic disease management and acute care under a CDTA. Prescribers can delegate specific patient care functions including modifying, initiating, interpreting laboratory tests and discontinuing drug therapy under a CPA.
If the pharmacists can perform these functions under CPA, then repetitive communications between the dispensing physicians and pharmacists can be reduced. As a result, the patient care delivery system becomes more efficient. Many pharmacies deliver direct patient care. In that case, using CPA can enhance their efficiency and generate customer retention and revenue.
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**Disclaimer: The information on this page is not intended to be a doctor's advice, nor does it create any form of patient-doctor relationship.