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OIG found serious failures in a focused set of nursing-home inspections, including missed pharmacist concerns and dose-reduction opportunities. The practical response is a review record that shows what was assessed, raised, answered, and revisited.
A practical reading of the remaining 2026 calendar—from focused ASCP regional education to larger aging-services and pharmacy meetings—and the buyer question each event is most likely to answer.
The 2026 measure uses a revised specification and additional data. Consultant pharmacists should understand the denominator and data sources before interpreting a facility trend.
A Reddit thread moved quickly from curiosity to skepticism. That is the right starting point: buyers need a demonstrated workflow, bounded use case, human review, failure path, and measurable result—not an AI badge.
FDA now requires warning language about vitamin B6 deficiency and associated seizures. The operational task is to identify affected residents and route the new information without turning a safety alert into one-size-fits-all treatment.
ASCP highlighted the first pharmacies to earn its Age-Friendly Pharmacy recognition in May. The news matters less as a badge story than as a prompt for a more disciplined question: can your medication-review workflow show its work?
CMS maintains current manuals, item sets, change tables, and technical specifications. A small practice needs simple version control before it builds MDS fields into recurring reports.
ASCP's May congressional update argues for expanding Medicare coverage of pharmacist services. The policy path is uncertain; a consultant practice can still prepare by making its service, documentation, and outcome data legible.