Health Programs - PIP - Hyrimoz Pharmacy Care

For patients prescribed Hyrimoz^®

1. Hyrimoz^® Patient Support Program (Startz)
   Refer your patients to the support program so they can sign up and access tools and services that may help them successfully manage their Hyrimoz^® treatment, including:

   • ongoing product and disease management support
   • injection trainings.

   For new users of Hyrimoz^®, it's a simple and convenient support service that will help them to quickly get up to speed with their medication and treatment journey.

   For patients who are already registered in Startz, or who choose not to be referred to the program, provide the quality use of medicines counselling aimed at informing and supporting them on the appropriate use of Hyrimoz^®.

2. Hyrimoz^® Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) Counselling
   Counsel your patients on their medication and provide enhanced patient care through your pharmacy.

   For biosimilar adalimumab naive patients:

3. Biosimilar awareness and education
   Support the Department of Health's biosimilar awareness campaign by providing further information to patients about the availability of biosimilars for their medication.

This program is sponsored by Sandoz, the supplier of Hyrimoz^® (adalimumab), and administered by MedAdvisor.

Steps: 

1. Pop Up Notification

2.    The pharmacy has access to the following information (for further details please read the information provided in the Health Services Hub tile) 

Hyrimoz^® Product Information – for Pharmacists only

Hyrimoz^® Consumer Medicine Information

Department of Health: What are biosimilar medicines?

Biosimilar medicines: The basics

3. Record the service in PlusOne (Record Services)

If the pharmacy clicks on the pop up, you will be directed to the patient details screen within the Record Services section of PlusOne.

Next In the patient details screen, click on ‘Service’ in the top menu.
Click on ‘Hyrimoz Pharmacy Care’ from the dropdown list of available services.
The ‘Hyrimoz Pharmacy Care’ service form will appear. You may now perform the service with the patient. Don’t forget to follow all prompts within the form, and click on ‘Complete’ when you have finished.

Information Print Out 

To download instructions on how to access the service in PlusOne, click on the link below.

Download How To Guide

Note: If pop-ups are disabled Click on ‘Record Services’ in the left-side menu of PlusOne and type your patient’s last name into the search bar at the top of the screen and click ‘Search’. Select your patient from the list of names.

4. Payment

The program sponsor, Sandoz, will support payments to your pharmacy for each program service form completed in the MedAdvisor PlusOne console.

The payment is only applicable if you:

1. Refer a patient to the Startz Patient Support Program - $10 for every completed service
2. Discuss the Hyrimoz^® quality use of medicines (QUM) with the patient using the assets provided within the service form – $20 for every completed service
3. Discuss the availability of biosimilars and provide the biosimilar education leaflet to the patient – $10 for every service completed

5. Safety event reporting responsibilities

As part of delivering the Hyrimoz^® Pharmacy Care program, pharmacists are under obligation to adhere to the relevant professional practice standards.

This includes but is not limited to applying professional judgement to identify, record and report potential or actual medication-related problems that are likely to be clinically significant for the patient (e.g. interactions, contraindications, incompatibilities, allergies, adverse drug reactions) to the patient’s Medical Practitioner, the Therapeutic Goods Administration and any other relevant entity such as the program sponsor.

Report a medicine adverse event

Report a suspected adverse event directly to the TGA using their website: https://www.tga.gov.au/reporting-problems

For more information, contact MedAdvisor Support.

Email: support@medadvisor.com.au

Phone: 1300 125 343

Payments will be made to your pharmacy by MedAdvisor. Click this link for instructions on how to update your pharmacy's remittance details.

Make sure all of your staff are trained and for more information visit mymedadvisor.com or contact support if you have any questions. 

If you have any further questions, please contact us on Support

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