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Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation Overview
3 easy steps to begin your URAC accreditation
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These days, specialty pharmacies are in the care management business - and those that can demonstrate that their processes can deliver quality patient care are in great demand.
The evolving role of specialty pharmacies in serving patients with complex, chronic diseases is critical to improving patient outcomes and financial performance, particularly with adherence to pharmacy accreditation standards.
Once you begin the process, your organization can be fully accredited in six months or less.
Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation Benefits
Achieving URAC’s Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation demonstrates the highest value in delivering enhanced clinical services to payers, manufacturers and providers.
Benefits of URAC's Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation include:
- Patient satisfaction through gathering, monitoring and improving quality measures
- Contracting differentiation with payers, manufacturers and other stakeholders
- Practical roadmap for ongoing improvement with infrastructure, processes and efficiencies
- Risk management through standards that require ongoing risk assessments and management
Accreditation Process: What to Expect
At URAC, our specialty pharmacy 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 patients.
Who May Apply
To be eligible to URAC’s Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation, an organization must provide for the dispensing of specialty medication(s) to consumers and provide patient management services. Organizations must be a licensed pharmacy in good standing and operating in the U.S. Download our Specialty Pharmacy Standards-at-a-Glance and Measures-at-a-Glance.
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