By Gina Shaw
Embedding a specialty clinical pharmacist into a dermatology clinic significantly improved the number of patients initiated on therapy and cut the time from receiving an insurance prior authorization (PA) denial to submitting an appeal by almost two weeks, according to presentation at the ASHP Pharmacy Futures meeting (poster 13M).
The University of Kansas Health System, in Kansas City, began embedding a clinical pharmacist in its dermatology clinic in 2021, sooner than for many of