These pre-conference workshops are offered separately for an additional charge. They are not included in the ASCP Annual Meeting & Exhibition registration fee.

The Collaborative Approach to Falls Prevention

Join an interactive panel of interprofessional fall prevention experts and complete comprehensive online work to earn 7 or 8.5 hours of CPE credit in Falls Prevention. After completing the workshop requirements, you will be prepared to administer a comprehensive falls assessment for people with an elevated risk of falls to identify and mitigate risks before a fall occurs. This training is based on The National Council on Aging (NCOA) and ASCP Falls Risk Reduction Toolkit and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI) Toolkit and interventions based on the American and British Geriatrics Societies Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention of Falls in Older Persons. This is an in-person workshop with online components. The 1.5 or 3 hours of prework must be completed before the 4 hours of in-person activities take place on November 7, 2024. You will follow up with 1.5 hours of post meeting online work.

(R)eimbursement for Long-Term Care Pharmacy and Senior Care Pharmacist Services in All Settings

Pharmacy continues to face downward pressure on reimbursement from payers in all settings of care. The recent changes in how Medicaid calculates the best price has caused manufacturers to cut prices dramatically on insulins and inhalers. The Inflation Reduction Act has disclosed the pricing on the first 10 Medicare negotiated medications. These changes may help with the costs to some degree, but the reaction by payers and the impact on pharmacies isn’t clear. Pharmacies survive on the margin between what they purchase a medication for and what they are reimbursed for the medication. Revenue for services has not kept up with the decline in margins. LTC pharmacy traditionally has done more for patients in terms of compliance packaging, emergency access and delivery, and medication regimen reviews. Those services require higher rates of reimbursement and they have demonstrated cost-effectiveness to healthcare. Survival is threatened if pharmacy doesn’t move more service based and less product margin based. Join top minds from the payer side and from the long-term care pharmacy side as they dialogue about what these services are, who provides them and why it’s necessary to fairly reimburse them so our vulnerable, aging parents, grandparents and friends can remain in the setting of their choosing (home, assisted living, skilled nursing) with access to the trusted services they need.

Antimicrobial Stewardship: Leading Practices

Join Dr. Deborah Milito as she moderates subject matter experts on the topic of antimicrobial stewardship. Drs. Elias Chahine and Kalin Clifford will discuss Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), and Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI). They will focus on the management of these infections in older adults. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CRAB and CDI are considered urgent threats in the United States. Older adults and those with multiple comorbid conditions are especially vulnerable to developing CRAB and CDI. UTIs are the fifth most common infection in hospitalized patients and new treatment updates are available. As antimicrobial stewards, senior care and consultant pharmacists play an important role in the management of CRAB, UTIs, and CDI. Attending this 4-hour in-person workshop along with completion of an online assessment awards the participant 5.5 BCGP/CPE credit hours.