EQUIPP® Welcome Guide
Welcome to EQUIPP®!
EQUIPP is a web-based performance information management platform providing visibility into the medication-related quality measures attributed to over 95% of community pharmacies. EQUIPP displays pharmacy-adjudicated claims data for over 90% of Medicare Part D lives and should be reviewed by pharmacy staff to:
- Prioritize quality measure performance goals related to payer programs
- Impact patient engagement that will drive improvements with quality measure performance
- Identify gaps in patient care through revenue-generating opportunities
New to EQUIPP? You can request a New User Orientation by clicking the link to schedule a time to meet with our support team to review your Performance Dashboard: Schedule EQUIPP Orientation
Need a refresher? Click the link below to join one of our weekly platform demos:
EQUIPP Data Transmission and Refresh
Each month, health plans and PBMs who partner with PQS, submit pharmacy-adjudicated claims data along with medical claims and member eligibility details. Quality measure data calculations are then conducted and performance scores are updated for display within EQUIPP. By the 15th of each month, users will see their performance data updated in EQUIPP.
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EQUIPP will display performance on medication-related quality measures upon logging in to the platform. The initial display is defaulted to each measure a pharmacy will have hosted data based on the supporting health plans. Each pharmacy should prioritize efforts on the patient population they want to impact based on contracted health plans and their performance expectations.
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The Measure Performance page provides detailed information about your pharmacy's selected quality measure score, graphically displays how your pharmacy compares to others, and participating Quality Improvement Programs and health plans. This detailed view can be found for each measure by clicking on the measure name within the Performance Dashboard.
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Outliers represent the patient population that are non-adherent or not meeting the intent of a measure. Resources are available in EQUIPP to target these patients. EQUIPP enables the documentation of actions, barriers, and potential outcomes associated with an outlier. This tool is available to assist pharmacies in organizing efforts for pharmacy staff to use toward targeting patient improvement
opportunities
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The My Programs tab hosts performance program data for specific health plans that directly correlate patient counts and/or performance scores with financial impact. This level of transparency is intended to help pharmacies understand where there is an opportunity for performance improvement and how that opportunity equates to a potential financial incentive. Each instance of a My Programs is implemented when a plan or payer has agreed to provide this level of detail through EQUIPP to display to pharmacies.
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PQS contracts with health plans that offer disease state management-related services addressing and incentivizing the completion of clinical care encounters. Certain health plans (each a “Participating Health Plan”) interested in initiating pharmacy-driven programs designed to incentivize quality improvement efforts for specific patient populations (each a “Program”) are enabling community pharmacies with opportunities to intervene and capture valuable patient-level data. Programs are available to select pharmacies serving a significant portion of participating populations whereby program performance and intervention opportunities will be made available through the EQUIPP dashboard in the Enhanced Services Tab.
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EQUIPP users can select the trend, data date range, and goal settings to display specific measure performance data. Users should view performance according to the measurement periods that align with either the pharmacy or organization’s strategic approach or performance-based programs that the pharmacy or organization may be participating in. Most health plans and performance programs are focused on YTD performance, which is the default trend selection in the platform.
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Measures and Performance Calculations
EQUIPP provides benchmarked data for standardized medication-related quality measures that are developed and endorsed by measure developers, according to CMS guidelines. Adherence quality measures account for the majority of hosted patient data as these scores are based on an individual patient's adherence to their maintenance medications for specific disease states. The primary measure categories within EQUIPP include:
- Adherence Measures
- Clinical Use Measures
- Specialty Measures
- Payer-Specific Program Measures
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Contact Us
You can email your questions directly to support@pharmacyquality.com or submit a request via this link. Within your Performance Dashboard, if you select the 'Support' tab on the top left portion of the screen, you will see the available resource drop-down menu.
More educational tools are available via our EQUIPP Webinars and Podcast links.