I've written about health care for three decades, starting from my native Iowa where I covered the presidential campaign bus rides of Bill and Hillary Clinton through the Hawkeye state talking health reform and the economy.
healthcare services to"test and treat." In this September 19, 2013 photo, pharmacist Jeanie Kim consults with a customer at a Walgreens pharmacy in Wheeling, Illinois. As Walgreens Boots Alliance chief executive Tim Wentworth works to engineer a financial turnaround of the iconic drugstore chain, he and his executive team are working with state and federal regulators to expand the role of the pharmacist to provide more healthcare services.
Some in the industry refer to this industry push as moving from “test to treat” given drugstore pharmacists have already become more involved in diagnostics given their key role during the pandemic as sellers of over-the-counter tests for COVID-19. There was even a push last year to allow pharmacists to give the oral COVID treatment Paxlovid once someone tested positive for the virus.
“We are on a mission to achieve provider status for our pharmacists given their influence, which was so clearly highlighted during the pandemic,” Wentworth told analysts during the company’s fiscal second quarter earnings call last week. “This would allow them to be reimbursed for providing select health care services to patients.
In the U.S., what healthcare professionals including pharmacists can and cannot do are often regulated by state scope of practice rules.
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