Amanda Carter

Experience

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  Fred Meyer Pharmacy

  Jul 2012 - Feb 2023

  Staff Pharmacist

  - Expanded available clinical services over in 23 South Puget Sound region stores including: -- Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services focused on patient safety and quality of care metrics. -- Travel Medicine Services including patient assessment and prescribing of appropriate CDC recommended medications for self-treatable conditions and administration of travel vaccines, including yellow fever -- Collaborative drug therapy agreement (CDTA) protocols for routine vaccines and travel medicine. -- Disease-state management and coaching programs for diabetes care, cardiovascular health, tobacco cessation and fitness, nutrition and weight management.- Facilitated 2 certificate training sessions each year for over 40 pharmacists and pharmacy interns to provide pharmacy-based clinical services and integrate these services into daily work-flow.- Precept first- and final-year pharmacy students from multiple schools of pharmacy.- Dispense prescriptions safely and accurately. Show less

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  QualChoice Health

  Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

  Temporary Medicare Clinical Pharmacist

  -Timely clinical review of 19 prior authorization and 83 appeal requests for Medicare Parts B and D medications.- Ensure cost-effective drug management, quality of care, regulatory compliance, and efficiency of organizational processes related to Medicare Part D.- Support, develop, and monitor success of quality improvement initiatives aligned with CMS Star Ratings.- Serve as clinical resource and mentor for 3 clinical and non-clinical personnel.- Support multi-faceted interfaces with members, providers, physicians, and medical groups, consistent with HIPAA regulations that focus on improving cost effective and high quality drug management.- Support development of provider/member engagement and outreach surrounding medications, including Drug Utilization Review (DUR) programs, Medication Therapy Management Program (MTMP), and/or other programs aimed at improving CMS Star Ratings. Show less

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  Virginia Mason Franciscan Health

  Jan 2017 - now

  Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist

  Heart failure and other cardiac disease management