Developing reimbursable clinical pharmacy programs: a goal-oriented approach.
Using a goal-oriented approach, a model for achieving third-party reimbursement for clinical pharmaceutical services is proposed. Within the framework of this model, the discussion includes: (1) determination of the hospital pharmacy mission, goals and objectives; (2) classification of clinical services into eight categories to establish the reimbursement potential for each service; (3) development of a clinical service protocol, techniques to establish charges and stages involved in communicating with the parties affected by the clinical services; and (4) methodologies for evaluating program outcome.
D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005246:Feedback; D006040:Goals; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms