About Us

Clinical Pharmacy Services provides customized, results-oriented prescription drug management services, including innovative medication therapy management and generics-first solutions. We are dedicated to advancing quality care, positive interactions, and excellent outcomes for your patients — while simultaneously containing costs.

Our UMass Medical School connection

Clinical Pharmacy Services, a national leader in clinical pharmacy support, is part of UMass Medical School’s nonprofit health care consulting division, Commonwealth Medicine. Our relationship with UMass Medical School provides us with a wealth of research and clinical resources that enhance our capabilities. 

First established in 1999 to provide drug utilization review services for Massachusetts Medicaid, Clinical Pharmacy Services now provides clinical and operational support, consulting, and service delivery in a broad range of areas:

• Generic utilization
• Medication therapy management
• Patient-centered medical homes
• Pharmacy analytics
• Pharmacoeconomic analysis
• Prescriber outreach
• Clinical guideline development
• Formulary management

Multidisciplinary pharmacy team

To meet the challenge of improving patient outcomes with limited budgets, Clinical Pharmacy Services managers have assembled a team with experience in multiple fields:

• Public and private health care organizations
• Community and institutional pharmacy practice
• Ambulatory care
• Pharmaceutical industry
• Academia

This broad foundation of knowledge enables us to understand and focus on your specific needs, ensuring superior provider and patient education and quality patient outcomes .

Business alliances

Our business partnerships strengthen our ability to improve your organization’s patient outcomes while effectively containing medication costs. We frequently work with claims processing providers, pharmacy benefits managers, and public- and private-sector health care organizations — and actively seek new opportunities for collaboration. By building partnerships with organizations that have high standards and similar goals, we expand our resources, extend our ability to help vulnerable groups, and produce even more significant results.