Lillian Torres

Background

About Lillian Torres

Pharmacy Benefit Management: According to the American Association (APhA),"A Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) is a third-party administrator of prescription drug programs. PBMs are primarily responsible for developing and maintaining the formulary, contracting with pharmacies, negotiating discounts and rebates with drug manufacturers, and processing and paying prescription drug claims. For the most part, they work with self-insured companies and goverment programs striving to maintain or reduce Pharmacy expenditures of the plan while concurrently trying to improve health care outcomes". Consultant Pharmacist: Medications are the primary therapeutic intervention in many health care settings. As prescription drug use continues to grow, and medication therapies become more complex, our health care systems have become more prone to medication errors and adverse drug events. Medication Therapy Management and Clinical Services by Consultant Pharmacist have been show to help reduce medication errors, adverse drug events and costs. Such services need to be integrated into the health care system and not be regarded as optional. A clinical practitioner that use clinical skills to ensure the patient receive quality, rational and cost-effective pharmaceutical care. Patient care outcomes are enhanced by the consultant pharmacist´s medication regimen review and quality assurance activities. A communicator, committee participation, recommendations to physicians, administrative reports, interactions with facility staff and patients, educational programs. An evidence based medicine resource, the consultant pharmacist are skilled at searching the medical and pharmacy literature, answering specific information request, providing individual patient medication therapy assessment and alerting clinical staff on the published standards of practice.