Glaucoma drops protect vision only when the patient can actually use them.
Glaucoma drops work with daily use and correct technique, yet glaucoma adherence is among the most challenging in medicine. Many patients miss doses, and many cannot reliably land a drop in the eye. A lapsed refill or a difficult bottle quietly ends therapy. Fairview Pharmacy is a 5 star rated pharmacy, 4 years running, and we coach technique and keep refills on schedule.
What is actually going wrong
The drug rarely fails. The bottle, the technique, and the refill behind it fail constantly.
Many older patients cannot reliably aim a drop into the eye, and without a pharmacist coaching technique, the medication ends up on the cheek rather than the cornea. Glaucoma has no symptoms until vision is already affected, so patients skip drops without any warning sign. A lapsed refill or a high copay quietly ends drop therapy. The patient does not feel the lapse, and neither do you until the next visual field test.
A chain pharmacy hands over a bottle of drops and gives no instruction at all.
Ophthalmology specific risk
Poor drop technique, silent non-adherence, refill gaps.
Poor drop technique
Many older patients cannot aim a drop into the eye. Without a pharmacist coaching technique, the medication does not reach the cornea, and intraocular pressure stays uncontrolled.
Silent non-adherence
Glaucoma has no symptoms until vision is already affected, so patients skip drops without alarm. The chart still says they are on therapy.
Refill and cost gaps
A lapsed refill or a high copay quietly ends drop therapy. The lapse is invisible to the patient and to you until the next field test.
Vision lost to uncontrolled glaucoma does not return. A pharmacy that coaches drop technique and keeps refills on schedule is directly protecting the outcome you are managing for.
The gap behind a worse field test
At a chain pharmacy, your glaucoma patient gets a bottle of drops and no instruction at all.
Nobody checks that they can land a drop. Nobody catches a skipped refill. If the prior authorization stalls, nobody fights it. You find out at the next visual field, when the change is already done.
That is not a pharmacy partner. That is a liability sitting between you and your patient's sight.
EQuIPP verified, 5 star, 4 years running
Fairview coaches drop technique and keeps refills on schedule.
Fairview performs in the 93rd percentile nationally on the EQuIPP quality platform.
Fairview Pharmacy ranks in the 93rd percentile nationally for medication adherence and holds a 5 star rating, 4 years running, with verified performance from 95.6% to 98.2% across our adherence categories, against a Mississippi state average near 82 to 83%. For your glaucoma patients, that discipline means hands on drop technique coaching, refills kept on schedule, and a pharmacist who calls the moment cost or a lapse threatens their sight.
EQuIPP performance metrics as of Quarter 4, 2025. Source: Pharmacy Quality Solutions EQuIPP platform.
You prescribe.
E prescribe to Fairview. NCPDP 2515104, NPI 1144383613.
We fill same day.
We clear every prior authorization.
We coach drop technique.
We teach every patient how to land a drop, and call before refills lapse.
We report to you.
Adherence and refill updates on the patients you referred.
You reinforce.
You address pressure control at the next visit.
Same day fills
Every glaucoma and ophthalmic prescription filled within 24 hours.
100% prior authorization handling
We fight and appeal every ophthalmic prior authorization for you.
Drop technique coaching
We teach every patient how to land a drop in the eye.
Cost and copay support
We find savings programs so cost is less likely to end drop therapy.
Proactive refill calls
We reach patients before they run out and start skipping drops.
Adherence reports to you
Who is filling and who is not, delivered to your office monthly.
Start with 5, zero risk
Send us 5 of your hardest glaucoma patients. 90 days. Zero risk.
We coach drop technique, keep every refill on schedule, and report adherence back to your office. If you do not see better consistency, you owe us nothing. No long term contracts. No commitments. Just results.
Request your intro call
A 10 minute call with Dr. Mike, no commitment and no paperwork to start. Just tell us how to reach you and a little about your practice. The 5 patient pilot is what we walk through on the call.
Typical response: Within 1 business day