Description
Deliver expert medication-use consulting to providers, payers, and care teams to optimize safety, efficacy, and cost. Advise on selection, dosing, interactions, formulary strategy, and regulatory compliance, and lead DUR, MTM, and quality-improvement initiatives.
- • Conduct comprehensive medication regimen reviews for appropriateness, safety, interactions, and adherence.
- • Provide evidence-based recommendations on drug selection, dosing, monitoring, and deprescribing.
- • Perform prospective, concurrent, and retrospective drug utilization review (DUR).
- • Develop and maintain formularies, PA criteria, and therapeutic interchange protocols.
- • Analyze prescribing and claims data to track trends, outcomes, and compliance.
- • Educate clinicians, patients, and caregivers on medication use and side effects.
- • Design and manage MTM and chronic disease management programs.
- • Advise on procurement, inventory optimization, and waste reduction.
- • Audit medication storage, handling, and controlled-substance records for compliance.
- • Collaborate with care teams to optimize therapy and transitions of care.
- • Create and update pharmacy policies, procedures, and SOPs.
- • Review sterile compounding and hazardous drug handling practices.
- • Support P&T Committee work with monographs, utilization reports, and guidelines.
- • Document recommendations, interventions, and outcomes per legal standards.
- • Lead medication safety and quality improvement initiatives and RCAs.
- • Support coverage determinations, billing issues, and prior authorizations.
- • Precept trainees and deliver staff education and in-services.
- • Optimize clinical decision support and pharmacy information systems.
- • Coordinate referrals to other health professionals or services when needed.
- • Produce reports, presentations, or publications to share findings and best practices.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
