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Q&A with PQA Board Chair James Kirby
The PQA Board of Directors represents a diverse group of thought leaders and experts in health care, who understand how medication optimization improves patient outcomes and supports a value-based care system. Their expertise helps PQA advance the safe and appropriate use of medicines. This blog is one in a series profiling PQA’s Board members. James Kirby, PharmD, BCPS, FAPhA, is PQA’s Board Chair for 2025. […] -
Five for Friday April 25: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
Welcome to Five For Friday! The 2025 PQA Annual Meeting is just four weeks away, and we are excited to welcome you to Tampa! The meeting provides in-person, high-impact opportunities for networking, professional development, continuing education, and strategic engagement with business partners and prospects. We have more than 50 speakers across 20 sessions and events that will […] -
Q&A with 2025-26 Executive Fellows
The PQA Postdoctoral Executive Fellowship helps produce the next generation of leaders in health care quality through a full-time, 12-month program. Executive Fellows collaborate with PQA staff, members and other stakeholders on a variety of initiatives to improve medication use quality. During the fellowship, individuals will expand their skills and experience in project management, quality […] -
Maximize Your Meeting Budget with PQA
With the volatility and uncertainty of today’s market, we’re all watching budgets and expenditures closely. At the same time, the business imperative to engage with your peers, partners and customers remains strong. Spring is the busiest professional meeting season for most industries, and that’s true for health care, pharmacy and quality, too. If you and […] -
PQA’s Six Objectives to Advance MTM Quality
The evolution of PQA’s continued involvement in medication therapy management (MTM) spans over a decade. Milestones include endorsement of the Completion Rate for Comprehensive Medication Review performance measure in 2011 and development of the foundational Medication Therapy Problem Categories Framework in 2017. In 2023, PQA launched a multiphase national MTM initiative to address stakeholder […] -
Education Needed on Use of PQA Medication Therapy Problem Categories Framework
The evolution of PQA’s continued involvement in medication therapy management (MTM) spans over a decade. The first blog in a series to detail PQA’s MTM initiative outlines PQA’s six objectives to advance MTM quality. This blog will address the first objective to promote a standard of care for MTM through education on using the PQA Medication Therapy Problem (MTP) Categories FrameworkTM in the Pharmacist’s […] -
PQA Presents Quality Awards to Eight Medicare Plan Contracts for High Achievement in Medication Quality Measures
Awards Honor Excellence and Improvement in Overall CMS Medicare Part D Star Ratings and PQA Medication Measures Alexandria, Va. (April 14, 2025) – The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) has recognized eight Medicare plan contracts with a PQA Laura Cranston Excellence in Quality or Quality Improvement Award for high achievement or significant improvement in PQA measures […] -
Five for Friday April 11: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
PQA is requesting self-nominations from individuals at PQA member organizations to serve on a Health Plan Measure Concept Advisory Group (MCAG). This group will help shape PQA’s health plan quality measure development efforts and pipeline in 2026 and beyond. The composition of this group will reflect PQA’s multi-stakeholder membership and include individuals with clinical, technical, […] -
Patient Perspectives Will Inform PQA’s Prioritization of Health Plan Measure Concepts
PQA is launching a Health Plan Measure Concept Advisory Group (MCAG) to review and provide input on measure concepts for development in 2026 and beyond. The group will provide guidance to prioritize health plan measure concepts, evaluating key criteria such as: The MCAG will be composed of 20-25 subject matter experts from PQA member organizations. […] -
Five for Friday March 28: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
Welcome to the 100th edition of Five For Friday! This series began four years ago, shortly after I joined PQA. The vision was to highlight our members’ amazing work to improve medication use quality. Since then, we have shared 300 news stories featuring nearly 200 organizations. Many of those stories profile the cross-sector collaborations that […]
PQA In the News
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Making Medication Management Services Measurable and Visible
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PQA’s quality roadmap: Micah Cost on the next era of medication quality measurement
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Focusing Quality Measures on Outcomes and Patient Experience
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Value-Based Pharmacy Model Helps Boost Care Quality
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PQA presents Quality Awards to 10 Medicare plan contracts for high achievement in medication quality measures
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