Telehealth medication management and health care spending in a Medicare Accountable Care Organization

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Urick, Benjamin Y. [1 ,2 ]
Peters, Amanda [1 ,3 ]
Pathak, Shweta [4 ]
Vest, Mary-Haston [1 ,3 ]
Colmenares, Evan [1 ,3 ]
Blanchard, Carrie [5 ]
Easter, Jon [1 ]
Foushee, Leigh [2 ]
DeFalco, Penny [2 ]
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[1] Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill, Eshelman Sch Pharm, Chapel Hill, NC USA
[2] Prime Therapeut, Eagan, MN USA
[3] UNC Hlth, Dept Pharm, Chapel Hill, NC USA
[4] Sheps Ctr Hlth Serv Res, Chapel Hill, NC USA
[5] North Carolina Div Hlth & Human Serv, Raleigh, NC USA
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PHARMACISTS; MORBIDITY;
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BACKGROUND: Value-based care is an opportunity for medication optimization services to improve medication management and reduce health care spending. The reach of these services may be extended through telehealth. However, as health care systems and payers grapple with the long-term financing of telehealth, real-world assessments are needed to evaluate the potential economic impact of pharmacy-driven tele-health services. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of a scalable pharmacist-driven telehealth intervention to improve medication manage-ment on health care spending for clinically complex patients who were enrolled in a Medicare Next Generation Accountable Care Organization. METHODS: Data for this pretest-posttest nonequivalent group design study came from Medicare claims from 2015 to 2020 and linked pharmacist care activity data derived from the electronic medical record. Patients in the intervention group were iden-tified as those who received the telehealth medication management service. Patients in the control group were offered the service- and refused or could not be contacted. The primary outcome was total medical spend-ing over a 6-month period, and impact was assessed using a covariate-adjusted differ-ence-in-difference model. RESULTS: There were 581 patients who received the intervention and 1,765 who served as controls. The telehealth intervention reduced total medical spending by $2,331.85 per patient over the first 6 months of the service ($388.50 per month; P = 0.0261). Across a range of estimates for the cost of service delivery, we find a return on invest-ment of 3.6:1 to 5.2:1. CONCLUSIONS: The $388.50 monthly savings found in this study represent a substantial reduction in health care spending and emphasize the opportunity for telehealth delivery of medication management services to improve value as a part of alternative payment models.
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