MMS recognizes CVS caremark for their 2009 URAC Best Practices in Health Care Consumer Empowerment and Protection Platinum Award

Drug Therapy Management recognized as innovative consumer-focused chronic disease prevention and management program

MINNEAPOLIS (Summer, 2009)—Medication Management Systems Inc, congratulates CVS Caremark on their award winning Drug Therapy Management program. CVS Caremark has been recognized by URAC with the 2009 Best Practices in Health Care Consumer Empowerment and Protection Platinum Award. The awards are designed to recognize innovative leadership and successful programs in consumer-focused health care management.

"The CVS Caremark Drug Therapy Management program focuses on identifying and resolving drug therapy problems for patients on multiple medications and this program makes a dramatic improvement in the lives of the patients they reach," said Tom Albers, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for MMS. "The pharmaceutical care based approach to drug therapy management combined with our software has played a critical role in managing and reporting the value of this program; the recognition by URAC further validates our leading-edge technology."

Since its inception in 2005, the Drug Therapy Management program delivered by CVS Caremark has been supported with the Assurance SystemTM, MMS’s electronic therapeutic record and clinical decision support software solution. The CVS Caremark pharmacist and pharmacy technician care team have also participated in the pharmaceutical care training program offered by MMS.

This marks the second time MMS’s Assurance SystemTM has supported a national award winning program. In 2004 the Fairview Health System was recognized with the Pinnacle Award, the American Pharmacist Associations highest honor, for their medication therapy management program.

Medication Management Systems, Inc. (MMS) is a leader in designing, delivering and implementing successful, standards-driven medication therapy management (MTM) programs. MMS employs a proven patient-centered pharmaceutical care approach supported by the Assurance System™ to improve medication efficacy, safety, and adherence for patients with complex drug therapies. www.medsmanagement.com