How to make Pharmacy “The Easy Part” of the patient experience. Anyone who’s ever been a hospital patient, or patient caregiver, knows that the mental strain of a serious illness can often match the negative impact of the physical trauma. Particularly when an illness is chronic and/or long-term, the stress involved in managing the details … Read More
Readmissions Reduction
The Definitive 340B Compliance Checklist For 2025
Download Our Free Compliance Checklist PDF 340B health systems have been under increasing scrutiny and regulatory oversight in recent years. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has indicated that it plans to increase the number and complexity of 340B program audits it conducts. Here’s how your health system can prepare every aspect of … Read More
Why A 340B Hospital Should Own A Specialty Pharmacy. Why Not.
Before we begin, we’re going to be honest with you. A significant component of VytlOne’s business is guiding 340B health systems through the process of building, accrediting, funding, launching and managing on-campus specialty pharmacies. Many times in this space, we’ve maintained that every 340B hospital should consider owning a specialty pharmacy. We’re currently in the … Read More
How Recent 340B Changes Impact Specialty Pharmacies In 2025
The evolving legal and legislative landscape surrounding the 340B Drug Pricing Program has significant implications for hospitals’ specialty pharmacies. Here’s a breakdown of the new developments and their likely impacts: Recent 340B changes and their impact on specialty pharmacies 1. 340B contract pharmacy restrictions Drug manufacturers have increasingly restricted the use of contract pharmacies, especially … Read More
How To Use Your 340B Program As a Community Health Engine
The 340B Drug Pricing Program, established by Congress in 1992, was designed to enable eligible healthcare organizations to stretch scarce federal resources, reaching more eligible patients and providing more comprehensive services. Over the years, this program has evolved into a powerful tool that can significantly enhance a hospital’s ability to improve patient outcomes, and ensure … Read More
How One Clinical Pharmacist Can Impact Hospital Readmissions
There are so many reasons Brandi Henneman has had such a positive impact on participation rates for VytlOne’s Readmission Reduction program at South Carolina’s Conway Medical Center. Chief among them, her first-rate professionalism, and her genuinely caring disposition — which immediately tells patients she has their best interests at heart. It’s a sense of comfort … Read More
Reducing Hospital Readmissions, One Patient At A Time.
(Scroll to the bottom of the page to watch our Program Overview video) As noted in a 2018 study conducted by the National Institutes Of Health (NIH), one of the cornerstones of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the Hospital Quality Initiative for enhancing patient safety, reducing hospital readmissions, improving quality, … Read More
VytlOne’s MedServRx: The Prescription-Drug Advantage For Patients And Their Providers
In the fall of 2022, VytlOne set-out to extend its pharmacy-based services to hospitals, their affiliated physicians and their patients by offering a multi-benefit prescription savings card. One that helps make unaffordable drugs more affordable, while increasing patients’ access to medications through prescription discounts. Just as importantly, a card that gives participating health systems access … Read More
How 340B Programs Can Positively Impact Value-Based Care Scores
It’s no secret that, for hospitals, one of the Affordable Care Act’s most far-reaching legacies is the impact that Value-Based Care has on the payments they receive. For many health systems, the lower their Value-Based Care scores, the lower the payments they receive from treating Medicare and Medicaid patients. What isn’t as commonly considered — … Read More
How To Avoid 30-Day Readmission Medicare/Medicaid Penalties
What is the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program? HRRP is a value-based Medicare purchasing program that encourages hospitals to improve communication and care coordination to better engage patients and caregivers in discharge plans and, in turn, prevent avoidable readmissions. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, “Value-based programs reward health care providers with incentive … Read More