Rxperience

Deep in pharmacy there are many stalwart leaders, local and regional pharmacists that have done tours of pharmacy, owned businesses and cheer leaded others to success.  One of the most supportive and experienced pharmacists of the southeast is Ed Vess, with Redsail, bringing solutions to pharmacists on the front lines of healthcare. Join our discussion with Ed on the days leading into the Redsail meeting in Grapevine Texas this Thu...

Nestled near the border of the US and Canada, Amy Stewart is the Chief Nursing Officer at the American Association of Post-Acute Care Nurses (AAPACN). She leads the nurses in skilled nursing homes responsible for the MDS and the home;s nursing direction. The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is the data instrument that CMS uses for quality and payment. It is critical and how pharmacy and pharmacists can work closer with the nurses charged wit...

ASCP has always cultivated leaders.  We may be the cradle of pharmacist leaders amongst the pharmacy associations. But not all are pharmacists. Lisa Gables started her career in accounting, working in adult day care before it became cool. She spent time at ASCP embedding herself in supporting the work our pharmacists and pharmacies dealing with older adults and the medically complex. She now leads the American Academy of Physician ...

A pillar of our industry doesn't need to be in it for decades and can come from anywhere at anytime. It is a part of what makes LTC pharmacy such a great place. Alan Obringer's special skill when he started in LTC was height. :) Now he stands tall as a leader in long term care and has an amazing practice in Florida helping move our sector forward. Want to know how to pivot, innovate in succeed in LTC - listen with us to Alan's stor...

Nothing screams "ASCP entrepreneurial pharmacy" like a family run pharmacy established in 1933, in the hometown of the largest pharmacy retailer (CVS) in the shadow of the 10,000 lbs gorilla (Amazon Pharmacy). White Cross Pharmacy has chucked and jabbed for nearly a century, always ahead of the curve taking care of people in their community with the kind of care only a family independent pharmacy can deliver. We go "on location" fo...

In this episode, your hosts & favorite pharmacist frontiersmen, speak with Dr. Brian Anderson, MD, CEO of the Coallition for Health AI (CHAI). CHAI is a leading health AI community made up of 1000s of healthcare organizations with a goal to make health AI safe and effective for all. Dr. Anderson provides tremendous insights on the impacts AI will have in healthcare and for pharmacists.

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You can't out passion our next guest. Miriam Cho is an engine of energy for long term care pharmacy. Don't tell her no, don't short pay her services, and don't give her a challenge you don't want solved. Miriam works in long term care pharmacy in Indiana and Illinois and she's at the center of the fight for fair reimbursement. Join us as we discuss what she is asking states to do, where things are in Illinois and what we all should...

Take the road less traveled... go where no one has gone before.. blaze the trail..  all of these phrases describe our next guest, Dee Antimasaris. A pharmacist whose incredible career has focused on providing pharmacist services in places without traditional pharmacists.  She works at a University without a pharmacy school, teaching physicians pharmacology and providing the kinds of services that create demand from the physicians t...

Embedded in insurance plans and state Medicaid departments, Ben Link became an insider. A pharmacist double-agent per se. You may have heard Ben speak at our annual meeting in Denver, providing unparalleled insight into the drug pricing schemes of third party plans and Federal and state programs. He eventually landed with investigative journalists and industry experts like Antonio Caccia to blow the whistle on managed medicaid plan...

Join this discussion with a beacon of the industry, Dan Buffington. We will discuss how to launch your consulting business, and how to plan an exit strategy. Then we will make some predictions on the future, and maybe answer the most important question of all: Who is better, Jaron or Kevin?

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Bob Warnock has always been a forerunner of long term care pharmacy.  He is a pillar of ASCP. Not only did he own and operate a LTC pharmacy, he sold it and worked for Omnicare as it become the market leader.  He then teamed up with the largest nursing home chain and established one the first large scale pharmacies using onsite dispensing, only to follow that up with running pharmacies for one of the most respected older adult heal...

The Vanguards of Health Care are the patients we serve in long term care. Join us for a discussion with Gary Puckrein, President and Founder of the National Minority Quality Forum, a DC based advocacy think tank who has been working with Medicare and Medicaid data for over 25 years and holds a database of over 160 million medical profiles from which he can predict health care down to the zip code level. NMQF's work is like none oth...

What better way to celebrate President's Day than to dig deep into the elected leadership of ASCP.  Marsha Meyer, President #52 and Rob Leffler, President-elect and future President #53 join Tom and Chad (incidentally, he was President #45).  Leaders guide ASCP and the President sets the plan each year to help move the organization forward. Listen in as we hear their stories, what drives them and how they see pharmacy in 2025 and b...

Pharmacy in older adults and the medically complex...  the final frontier. These are the stories of intrepid pharmacists. Its mission: to explore strange new ways to get paid for services; to seek out new opportunities and new practices; to boldly go where no pharmacist has gone before! This new Rxperience Podcast series is Captained by Jaron Stout and Kevin Walker and promises to shine a beam on the new frontiers in pharmacist pra...

Way back in 1969, a forward thinking, innovative group of pharmacists convened together in a new association called ASCP. Identifying as pharmacists who were "consulted" by these shiny, new care centers called nursing homes, they started an industry and a service centered around managing medications - how to best package, deliver, start, stop and evalaute medications in an effort to keep people safe and healthy. This celebrated ass...