News and insights from Stellus Rx that give a glimpse into how much better healthcare can be when pharmacists can connect more authentically with patients.
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Medical Economics: Expanding Pharmacy’s Role in Value-Based Care with CEO, Tony Willoughby
September 16, 2024
How can pharmacists propel value-based care performance ... all while improving patient health? CEO
Tony Willoughby
shares insights for what a pragmatic, scalable model looks like.
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MedCity News: Shifting Focus from Medication Costs to Medication Value with CEO, Tony Willoughby
September 15, 2024
To realize true, sustainable savings in total cost of care, the healthcare system needs to reconsider the support — or lack of support — it provides throughout patients’ medication experiences and the snowball effect that creates on a lifetime of healthcare costs.
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Physicians Group of Southeastern Ohio Drives Adherence Performance through Partnership with Stellus Rx
May 15, 2024
In this interview with Dr. Williams, we explore how her medical group continues to succeed in value-based care through adaptation, innovation and partnership.
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Dr. Stephen Buksh, Northeast Tarrant Internal Medicine Associates in Texas (Part 2)
May 1, 2024
In part two of this two-part interview, Dr. Stephen Buksh—a physician at Northeast Tarrant Internal Medicine Associates (NETIMA)— discusses the additional value his practice has received through its work with Stellus Rx, the value of team-based care and how he is able to reframe patients’ minds about receiving more high-touch care.
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Palmetto Primary Care Physicians Unlocks Medication Adherence Performance in Six Months with Stellus Rx
April 17, 2024
Working in partnership with Stellus Rx, South Carolina-based Palmetto Primary Care Physicians (PPCP) went from “year after year” of 2- and 3-star performance in HEDIS medication adherence measures to 4- and 5-stars in 90% of medication adherence measures within the first six months of work together.
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Dr. Stephen Buksh, Northeast Tarrant Internal Medicine Associates in Texas (Part 1)
April 3, 2024
In this new series from Stellus Rx, we’re exploring the perspectives and insights from our physician partners—healthcare providers who have dedicated their lives toward improving the lives of others. First in the series is Dr. Stephen Buksh, a physician at Northeast Tarrant Internal Medicine Associates (NETIMA), who has been in private practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for more than 25 years.
In part one of this two-part interview, Dr. Buksh shares some of the common challenges his patients face in their health journeys … how he and his practice have worked to deliver a more connected and relationship-driven care experience … and the value that he and his patients have seen in their collaborative work with the pharmacists at Stellus Rx.
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Catalyst Senior Health Network Drives Medicare Advantage Performance through Adherence
December 8, 2023
Since 2017, Catalyst Senior Health Network (CSHN) has engaged with Stellus Rx to deploy Stellus Adhere as a fundamental component of the Network’s overall performance strategy. Network members trust Stellus Rx as a partner in identifying and closing medication adherence gaps among upward of 30,000 lives in the network’s Medicare Advantage patient population. Hear from CSHN executives Dr. Matt Weyenberg (Chief Medical Officer) and Tyler Wilson (Executive Director, Medicare Programs) share their insights on the partnership.
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MedCity News: Prescribing Change for the Impact Pharmacists Can Make in Healthcare with CEO, Tony Willoughby
August 1, 2023
Even as value-based care finds its footing and expands further, team-based approaches to care delivery and incorporating pharmacists as crucial connections are already bearing results—helping provider organizations achieve 5-star CMS ratings for medication adherence, driving down costs, and driving up the quality of life for patients. Tony shares his thoughts on the expanded--and often under-appreciated--role that pharmacists can play in the health of patients and the delivery of care in value-based care models.
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Healthcare Upside/Down: Mind the Gap (In Care) with CEO, Tony Willoughby
June 8, 2023
Tony discusses how Stellus Rx is redefining the pharmacy experience to improve people's health again and again.
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Managed Healthcare Executive: Beyond the First Wave of Digital Innovation with CEO, Tony Willoughby
January 10, 2023
Fast and efficient pharmacy experiences are important, but only scratch the surface of the impact that pharmacists can make on the health of our communities. Our pharmacists are relied on as trusted experts by both patients and physicians, from helping to navigate prescriptions and offering guidance to ensure medications are working as expected, to removing administrative obstacles for practices.