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MINNESOTA PHARMACIST WINTER 2020 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Minnesota Legislature: Hot Issues for the 2020 Session MPhA’s ALNE Celebrates Another Success Updates to Gender-Affirming Pharmacotherapy: A Summary of Guideline Recommendations ...and more! WINTER 2020 Volume 74, Number 1 INSIDE UPFRONT VIEWS AND NEWS A Message from the MPhA President ..................................... 4 Message from the Executive Director ..................................... 5 ON THE COVER MINNESOTA NEWS The Winter issue of the Minnesota Pharmacist includes a report about some Update from the Dean ................................................. 6 of the topics of interest to pharmacists at the Minnesota Legislature as well as a resource guide to help you reach out Minnesota Legislative Preview: Hot Issues for the 2020 Session ................ 7 to your state and federal level elected officials. It’s more important now than ever to let them know how you and your MPPS Seeks and Welcomes New Members ............................... 8 pharmacy are being affected by outside forces. Pharmacy Time Capsule ............................................... 8 Find us on Facebook MPhA NEWS MINNESOTA PHARMACISTS Help Us Recognize Today’s Leaders in Pharmacy ............................ 9 ASSOCIATION You’ll find quick updates about what is MPhA’s ALNE Celebrates Another Success ............................... 12 happening at MPhA and more photos from our events! MPhA News & Notes ................................................. 32 Find us here. NATIONAL NEWS Follow us on Twitter National and State Associations Submit Joint Comments to CMS on Scope of Practice 14 Follow us @MinnPharmAssoc CLINICAL NEWS Network on LinkedIn You can find us here. Updates to Gender-Affirming Pharmacotherapy: . 15 View photos on Insatgram 2020 Prescription Drug Prices: Growing Slower, but Not Going Lower. 22 Follow us @minnpharmassoc MPHA RESOURCE GUIDE Share your pharmacy-related Legislative Directory ................................................. 26 photos using #minnpharm DO THE WRITE THING Has your pharmacy created an innovative practice idea that benefits your patients? Are you doing research or have special interest or knowledge about some aspect of pharmacy that you are ready to share with your fellow MPhA members? Do you have news to share about MPhA members and their achievements? Help us spread the news about the good work that our members are doing across Minnesota! We are always on the lookout for articles for our Small Doses weekly e-newsletter as well as our quarterly Minnesota Pharmacist journal. Articles for the e-newsletter are typically 75-200 words, while articles for the journal can be up to 1,500 words. Send material to Communication Director Laurie Pumper at [email protected]. Laurie can also answer questions about topics, format and deadlines. MPHA BOARD OF DIRECTORS President: Craig Else Upcoming Events Past President: Jason Varin President-Elect: Michelle Johnson Secretary-Treasurer: Tim Affeldt Central Minnesota Resident MPhA Leadership Summit and Speaker: Alison Knutson Clinical Pearls – MSHP and MPhA House of Delegates Meeting Rural Board Members: Joint CE Event June 10, 2020 Reid Smith April 2, 2020 Roseville, MN Jason Miller St. Cloud, MN Metro Board Members: APhA’s Delivering Medication MPhA Annual Learning Networking Amanda Brummel Sarah Westberg Therapy Mgmt. Services – Twin Event Cities October 1-2, 2020 At-Large Board Members: Ann Byre May 8, 2020 Brooklyn Park, MN Ross Fishman St. Paul, MN Rebecca Pickler Anoji Punjabi Register Today! Visit the MPhA website for more details about all these events! Christel Svingen Student Representation: Duluth MPSA Liaison: Brandon Anderson Minneapolis MPSA Liaison: Kris Nemitz The Minnesota Pharmacists Foundation Ex-Officio collaborates with and supports the profession Vice Speaker: Luke Slindee of pharmacy for the enrichment of public MN ASCP Representative: Jordan Wolf health. MCCP Representatives: Andrea Larson, President VISIT MNPHARMACISTS.ORG FOR MORE Marjan Khazaeli, President Elect INFORMATION. College of Pharmacy Representative: Bruce Benson Your Amazon.com purchases can help raise Pharmacy Technician Representatives: funds for the Foundation. Simply choose Deena Ayoub “Minnesota Pharmacists Foundation” at Max Blanchard Amazon Smile, and 0.5% of the purchase will Matt Winans be donated to the Minnesota Pharmacists Minnesota Pharmacist Foundation. Official publication of the Minnesota Pharmacists Association. MPhA is an affiliate of the American Pharmacists Association, the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, the Academy of Managed MPhA Mission: Serving Minnesota pharmacist providers to advance patient care. Care Pharmacy, and the National Community The Minnesota Pharmacists Association is a state professional association, whose Pharmacists Association. membership is made up of pharmacists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, Editor: and those with a business interest in pharmacy. MPhA will be the place where Laurie Pumper, CAE pharmacists go first for education, information and resources to become empowered to provide optimal patient care. MPhA will be the recognized and respected voice of Managing Editor, Design & Production pharmacy with legislators, regulators, payors, media and the public. Jessie Austin The Minnesota Pharmacist journal is published quarterly by the Minnesota Pharmacists Association, 1000 Westgate Drive, Suite 252, St. Paul, MN 55114-1469. Phone: 651-697-1771 or 1-800-451-8349, 651-290-2266 fax, [email protected]. Send email address changes to Minnesota Pharmacist, 1000 Westgate Drive, Suite 252, St. Paul, MN 55114-1469 or email [email protected] Article Submission/advertising: For writer’s guidelines, article submission, or advertising opportunities, contact Laurie Pumper at the above address or email [email protected]. Copyright 2019-2020. Bylined articles express the opinion of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Minnesota Pharmacists Association. Articles printed in this publication may not be reproduced in any manner, either in whole or in part, without specific written permission of the publisher. Acceptance of advertisement does not indicate endorsement. Minnesota Pharmacist • Winter 2020 • 3 UPFRONT VIEWS AND NEWS President’s Desk A Message from the MPhA President By Craig Else, PharmD I want to thank everyone who attended our Annual Learning The MPhA Board will be working with our various and Networking Event (ALNE) in October. It was great to committees to advance our strategic plan. This includes see so many enthusiastic and engaged pharmacists and four pillars: Advocacy, Membership Engagement, Practice students getting together to share stories, learn new skills Implementation and Financial Advancement. I believe each around leadership, clinical and operations, and partner in of these areas will work synergistically to support our future helping create the future of our profession. I also appreciate success. In 2019, we were very successful in our Minnesota the strong support of our many vendor partners. We had Pharmacy Alliance (MPA) partnership with the Minnesota great participation and discussions in the hallways between Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP) and the sessions. Thank you finally to Sarah Derr, our executive College of Pharmacy in advancing our legislative priorities. director, and the Ewald staff (Siri Livdahl, Jill Tichy, Jenna We want to build upon this success, but also feel we need Luedtke and many others) for putting on such a great event. to increase our focus on implementation. Pharmacy practice I heard many compliments about the food and facilities and in Minnesota has not taken full advantage of past legislative everything ran smoothly. changes to improve care — and we hope to engage our membership to create education and toolkits to help our Sarah and I attended a number of Town Hall events all members succeed. over Minnesota, last fall. Meetings in St. Cloud, Duluth, Alexandria, Rochester, Braham, and Grand Rapids provided Finally, I want to thank all of you for everything you do for an opportunity for continued education and to continue your patients, your families, and yourselves. I am proud discussions on how to improve the care of our patients and to be part of this wonderful profession which has a proud ourselves. I hope to see many of you at future events. history and a bright future. I am confident our brilliant, passionate and caring members will help lead us forward. APHA’S DELIVERING MEDICATION THERAPY MGMT. SERVICES – TWIN CITIES Friday, May 8, 2020 Facilitators: Jordan Wolf, PharmD, and Michelle Johnson, PharmD, BCACP • St. Paul Join us for the next MTM certificate program in May. This program qualifies you to register as a provider with MN Medicaid and conduct and receive payment for Medication Therapy Management services. APhA’s Delivering Medication Therapy Management Services Certificate training program (3rd Edition) presents a systematic approach for developing, implementing, delivering, and sustaining MTM services. REGISTER AT MPHA.ORG 4 • Minnesota Pharmacist • Winter 2020 UPFRONT VIEWS AND NEWS Message from the Executive Director Minnesota: The Pharmacy Innovators By Sarah Derr, Pharm D Innovation. Collaboration. Partnership. Minnesota Public Health Partnerships pharmacies and pharmacists have prided themselves on During my short time back in Minnesota, I have also had the being innovative for decades now. I am proud to say I went pleasure of seeing pharmacists partner with