Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Service
MTM is a collaborative effort between you, your pharmacist and other healthcare professionals to promote the safe and effective use of medications. It is designed to help you achieve the targeted outcomes from a prescription regimen. MTM includes a range of services designed to help you:
- Know more about getting the greatest benefit from your medications
- Reduce risk by learning how to avoid harmful side effects
- Save money by finding lower-cost alternatives to prescribed medications
Who Benefits from MTM?
- Patient who has experienced a transition of care, and his or her regimen has changed
- Patient who is receiving care from more than one prescriber
- Patient who is taking one or more chronic medications (including prescription and nonprescription medications, herbal products, and other dietary supplements)
- Patient who has at least one chronic disease or chronic health condition (e.g., heart failure, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, asthma, osteoporosis, depression, osteoarthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
- Patient who has laboratory values outside the normal range that could be caused by or may be improved with medication therapy
- Patient who has demonstrated nonadherence (including underuse and overuse) to a medication regimen
- A patient who has recently experienced an adverse event (medication or non–medication-related) while receiving care
- Patient who is taking high-risk medication(s), (e.g., warfarin, phenytoin, methotrexate)
