New Materials to Support Medication Adherence

We recently sent our members an email highlighting the importance of taking medications as prescribed. We included our new medication adherence brochure with information and resources for members to help them stay on their medication schedule.

It is important to ensure your patients understand the importance of taking their medications as prescribed. Adherence to a prescribed medication regimen is essential for achieving desired therapeutic outcomes.

Helpful tips to support medication adherence:

• Switch patients from 30-day fills to 90-day fills for chronic-illness medications.
• Avoid polypharmacy (using multiple, overlapping prescription drugs of the same class/type) by keeping a current medication list. EmblemHealth offers free fillable/printable medication lists in different languages on our Medication Adherence web page.
• Encourage the use of a pillbox and ask if the patient’s pharmacy offers compliance packaging to help them stay adherent. EmblemHealth offers a free pillbox that can be shipped right to the patient’s doorstep.

For contact information, see our Pharmacy Services Contacts.