Focus On COVID-19 Test-to-Treat Services

This resource equips pharmacists with guidance on COVID-19 test-to-treat services, focusing on the ongoing burden of severe and long COVID. It outlines current antiviral options, eligibility criteria, and treatment timing, and it provides actionable strategies for identifying candidates who may benefit from treatment. Pharmacists will find best practices, clinical criteria, and communication tools to support timely care and reduce long-term disease impact.

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Guide for pharmacists: Test to treat services for COVID-19

Enhance your learning with our new conversation guide for pharmacists featuring best practices for discussing COVID-19 antiviral treatment with your patients.

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COVID-19 vs. Long COVID: What You Need to Know

This guide helps you explain symptoms, identify treatment options, and debunk common myths—so patients can make informed decisions. Whether you're counseling someone newly symptomatic or helping a patient manage lingering effects, this guide supports meaningful, informed conversations.

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Strep Test and Treat: Billing and Credentialing for Pharmacist Services

This new guide from APhA, with support from Abbott Laboratories, will help you learn the process of pharmacist billing and credentialling for strep test and treat services in your community pharmacy.

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Overview of state-based pharmacist authority to provide streptococcus point of care testing and treatment

This supplemental resource provides a state-by-state overview of pharmacist authority, requirements, guidance for credentialing and billing and additional resources to help pharmacists implement streptococcus point of care testing and treatment.

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Frontline Interviews: Rapid Molecular Strep Testing in Community Pharmacies

This new interview series, supported by Abbott Laboratories, will help you gain key insights and answer questions about conducting rapid molecular strep testing in your pharmacy in both urban and rural settings.

• Strep test and treat services in an urban community pharmacy practice setting.
• Strep test and treat services in a rural community pharmacy practice setting.

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Test and Treat for Respiratory Conditions: The Value Delivered by Pharmacists

As one of the most reliable, accessible healthcare providers, pharmacists are well-positioned to support patients with test and treat services for common respiratory infections. This course, support by Abbot Laboratories, will review the types of respiratory infections that pharmacists can impact, the testing to use and strategies to effectively communicate the value of pharmacist- led respiratory test and treat services to patients and other healthcare professionals.

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Pharmacy-Based Test and Treat 8 Hour Certificate Training Program

This learning activity is designed to equip pharmacists and student pharmacists with the knowledge to provide POCT and diagnostic services for minor, nonchronic health conditions that are manageable with minimal treatment or self-care. The program is composed of four(4) modules and reviews POCT, managing nonchronic health conditions, and implementing and entering into a test-and-treat protocol with a supervising physician.

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APhA Resources

• Overview of state-based pharmacist authority to provide streptococcus point of care testing and treatment
• Test to Treat for Paxlovid - Member Login Required
• Inequity to COVID-19 Test to Treat Access — Pharmacists can help if permitted
• Pharmacists' Patient Care State Fact Sheets
• A Pharmacist’s Guide to Point of Care Testing
• Project Impact: Test and Treat

Other Resources

• Global engagement of pharmacists in test and treat initiatives: Bringing care from clinics to communities
• A Guide to Implementing Point-of-Care Testing Services in Community Pharmacy
• Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Test-to-Treat Toolkit for Community Pharmacies
• Community Pharmacists and Technicians: Impacting Public Health One Service at a Time