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NMPIC Welcomes as its New Chair:
Larry Georgeopoulos, PharmD
Presbyterian Health Plan!
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The New Mexico Prescription Improvement Coalition (NMPIC) is a group effort aimed at reducing the negative health effects associated with inappropriate drug treatment in Medicare beneficiaries and serves New Mexico’s community interest through education, clinical guidelines for appropriate treatment of people with chronic disease and drug utilization. NMPIC involves health care providers, pharmacies, and health plans to improve prescribing, with particular emphasis on assisting physician practice sites that use or are adopting e-prescribing technology. Two phases are planned for this coalition: the first phase currently involves only Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans (MA-PDPs), while the second phase will involve several large PDPs, selected based on the PDP enrollment data provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Mission: To improve safety in delivery of prescription drugs in New Mexico
Goals: To promote best practices in prescribing and medication management therapies
To share data on prescription management and choose appropriate interventions
To establish common medication treatment guidelines for chronic disease populations
To develop and implement new methods to gather and disseminate better evidence for health care decision-making
To promote and assist in the implementation of e-prescribing with comprehensive decision support tools
To educate providers and beneficiaries on safety in delivery of prescription drugs
Quality Indicators:
- Drugs to be avoided in the elderly
- Annual monitoring for patients on persistent medications: ACE inhibitors or ARB, digoxin, diuretics, anticonvulsants, statins
- Use of select medications in certain categories: diabetes and cardiovascular disease
Link to more NMPIC information: List of Members NMPIC Workgroups NMPIC Full Coalition Meetings NMPIC Newsletters Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Materials E-Prescribing Pilot Financial Model Contact Us/Feedback
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