How can your pharmacy leverage the B.U.I.L.D. approach to optimize performance within the EQUIPP platform? Let’s walk through each letter and learn how to utilize EQUIPP more effectively and boost your pharmacy’s performance.

B.U.I.L.D. Explained

• B: Be Bold – Challenge yourselves! Don’t just settle for the status quo. Explore new opportunities within EQUIPP, such as revenue-generating programs through “My Programs” and “Enhanced Services.” These programs offer incentives for achieving specific goals, allowing you to fund additional resources or staff rewards.
• U: Understand Your Goals – EQUIPP remains the foundation for reviewing quality measure data and performance metrics. Use the platform to identify goals based on managed care contracts, patient volume, and revenue opportunity. The main screen displays key measures like Cholesterol and Diabetes PDC, allowing you to prioritize based on your business focus.
• I: Influence Patients – Improvement is a behavior change for you and your patients. Consider providing resources to patients on how medication adherence impacts their health outcomes. Explore strategies like offering automatic refills, compliant packaging, and medication reviews to ensure accuracy and improve adherence rates. Understand barriers to healthcare for your patients and work to help influence what you can.
• L: Learn from History – Track your pharmacy’s performance scores, analyze trends, and set specific date ranges to monitor progress such as reviewing previous year data. Explore the “My Programs” page and identify areas for improvement.
• D: Do What Works – By understanding what strategies you implement to improve, use EQUIPP to map your success for the tactics you have executed. Understanding your performance trends allows you to know what worked and how to repeat those successes for other patients.

Don’t forget: EQUIPP offers various programs with incentives:

• • Adherence Monitoring Program: Document interventions and sell applicable medications for patients.
  • Controlling Blood Pressure Program: Receive incentives for recording electronic blood pressure readings.
  • Hemoglobin A1C Program: (Requires a waiver) Earn incentives for measuring A1C levels in patients.
  • Community Program: Benefit from state and quality measure programs that incentivize patient adherence and documentation.

Review this B.U.I.L.D. strategy with your pharmacy team and remember to engage, engage, engage. By taking a proactive approach to utilizing EQUIPP and embracing the B.U.I.L.D. principles, your pharmacy can maximize performance, improve patient outcomes, and potentially generate additional revenue. NOW IS THE TIME!

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Download the EQUIPP Elite rack card. Also available for download is the revised EQUIPP Cheat Sheet which provides common elements and terms used in EQUIPP and strategy for how your pharmacy team can B.U.I.L.D. success.