By 2025, according to the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, it is estimated  that 49% of the American population will have a chronic medical condition. Those with chronic medical conditions are the most frequent health care utilizers, accounting for 81% of hospital admissions and 91% of prescriptions filled; medications are involved in 80% of all treatments. All of these facts make it increasingly important that a pharmacist’s evaluation and treatment plan is taken into consideration when caring for this high-need, high-cost patient population.