Many companies are offering their employees the benefit of a corporate pharmacist as an added specialist on the company healthcare team. There are many ways that a corporate pharmacist can help employees as well as impact the bottom line for corporate expenditures in benefit categories.
A corporate pharmacist can help employees by:
- Providing medication regimen reviews
- Identifying medications on the company insurance formulary as preferred medications, thereby yielding a more cost-effective solution
- Contacting the employee’s physician with recommended changes for reasons of side effects, cost effectiveness, or concerns of duplicate therapies
- Addressing lifestyle issues contributing to disease
- Reviewing medications recommended for
- high blood pressure
- heart disease
- diabetes
- high cholesterol
A corporate pharmacist can help the company by:
- Managing medications to lessen the possibility of work-related accidents
- Encouraging employees to see their physicians for consistent management of lifestyle diseases, such as high blood pressure and diabetes
- Decreasing the likelihood of drug interactions that could require emergency responders, hospital stays, extensive medical testing, and loss of time on the job
- Eliminating duplication of therapies that add to the number of medications and overall drug costs
- Saving money by prevention, intervention, and communication with employees, health care providers, and ancillary medical professionals