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Specialty Pharmacy Services Accreditation Overview
The world of specialty pharmacy is simultaneously complex, expensive and dynamic. Pharmacy support organizations are increasingly at the center of this ecosystem, playing an essential role as the interface between the stakeholders who need to contain costs while ensuring high quality patient care. They typically offer:
- Patient support programs
- Benefits and reimbursement services
- Data collection and reporting
Once you begin the process, your organization can be fully accredited in six months or less.
Specialty Pharmacy Services Accreditation Benefits
URAC's Specialty Pharmacy Services Accreditation helps assure stakeholders that your organization meets the highest quality standards. Specialty Pharmacy Services Accreditation has a focus on patient service and communication and there is no measures reporting.
Benefits of Specialty Pharmacy Services Accreditation include:
- A practical roadmap for ongoing improvement
- Risk management analysis and mitigation strategies
- Processes to track laws and regulations and respond to detected risks
Accreditation Process: What to Expect
At URAC, our accreditation process is more than collecting metrics and checking boxes. URAC offers your organization a collaborative, comprehensive learning experience designed to enhance knowledge and promote quality practices.
The program helps highlight the work your organization already does or can help guide your practice as you build the infrastructure to support specialty pharmacies.
Who May Apply
To be eligible for URAC’s Specialty Pharmacy Services Accreditation, an organization must provide support service functions for their licensed specialty pharmacies partner(s). Organizations must be operating in the U.S. Download our Specialty Pharmacy Services Standards-at-a-Glance for more information.
If your organization is a licensed pharmacy that handles and distributes medication, URAC's Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation may be right for you.
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