Pharmacotherapy clinics operating in seven Chicago-area nonprofit community hospital sites as part of the Ascension Illinois health system are generating millions of dollars in new revenue and achieving major savings for patients via financial assistance.
Through the clinics, embedded in hospital outpatient departments, pharmacists conducted more than 13,000 billable in-person and telehealth visits with patients (as of July 2023) and were able to tap into more than $2.1 million in