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Friday, September 23, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Supporting Medication Adherence With Motivational Interviewing »
Pharmacists are in a unique position to impact public health, one patient at a time. With more than 90% of Americans livin...
Friday, September 23, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Nearly 15,000 Pharmacies Leaving Tricare Next Month »
Thousands of independent and community pharmacies are poised to be dropped from Tricare's pharmacy network next month in a...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Adderall Shortage in US Spreads to Two More Drug Suppliers, Impacting Consumer Demand »
A growing U.S. shortage of Adderall, a prescription drug taken to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, has spre...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Galvanized by Dobbs, More Doctors are Distributing Abortion Pills by Mail »
Doctors at online and brick and mortar primary care companies are slowly starting to prescribe medication abortion pills v...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Talk of Covid’s End Sparks Fight Over Funding, Emergency Powers »
The latest phase of the Covid pandemic is shaping up to be the hardest for the Biden administration as the White House fac...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Complexity of Covid Vaccine Program Leads to Concerns About Potential for Error »
The rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination program has reached new heights of complexity with the start of the bivalent boost...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCPA Secures Fireside Chat With FTC Official »
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Community Pharmacists Association has announced that Federal Trade Commissioner Chair Lina...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCPA Hosts Policymakers »
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Community Pharmacists Association completed 60 pharmacy meetings with policymakers or their...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
The Evolution of the CBD Regulatory Landscape »
No federal agency has taken charge of regulating cannabidiol products, leaving decisions up to the individual states. At...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Data Did Not Drive Acquisition of Change, UnitedHealth Says »
Unsealed briefs in the Department of Justice's case against the UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare merger solidify a...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
AHIP: Drugs Still Are Largest Piece Of Commercial Plans’ Premiums »
The health insurance lobby AHIP reports that the percentage of premium dollars commercial insurers spent on drug and medic...
Monday, August 29, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
4 Drugmakers Struggle With Adderall Shortage »
As local pharmacies grapple to stock Adderall, four pharmaceutical companies had supply issues for the attention-deficit/h...
Monday, August 29, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
FDA Expected to Authorize Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech Omicron Boosters »
For those who’ve put off a Covid vaccine booster in hopes of getting a shot tailor-made for the Omicron subvariants that h...
Monday, August 29, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Feds' Free COVID-19 Test Program to Halt This Week Due to Lack of Funding »
With COVID-19 funding drying up and no fresh cash infusion from Congress, the Biden administration says it will suspend it...
Monday, August 29, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Clinicians React to Over-the-Counter Birth Control Possibility »
Doctors may soon play much less of a part in prescribing birth control, and many are okay with the reduced role. In July,...
Monday, August 29, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
How Pharmacies Can Thrive Amid Financial, Regulatory and Economic Uncertainties »
Community pharmacies need to ramp up now to be ready for 2023 and ensure their operations, technology and partnerships are...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
HHS Guidance for Pharmacists Following Supreme Court Abortion Decision Creates Confusion »
In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Ron Lanton III, Esq., discussed the recent guidance for pharmacists released by the D...
Monday, August 8, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Pharmacy is Propelling Long Overdue Medicare Reform »
Tune-ups. Spring cleaning. Check-ups. However tedious it can be, maintenance is a part of life. We do what we can (most of...
Monday, August 8, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Pharmacy Focus: Move the Needle Monday- COVID-19 Extended as Public Health Emergency »
In this month's episode, Ed Cohen and John Beckner from NCPA discuss the HHS's decision to extend the COVID-19 Public Heal...
Monday, August 8, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Expert: Pharmacists’ Paxlovid Authorization is a “Significant Step” Toward Provider Status »
In addition to expanding patient access to Paxlovid, the antiviral approved for patients with COVID-19, the recent authori...
Monday, August 8, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Senate Democrats Pass Major Healthcare Deal That Includes Drug Price Reforms »
UPDATED: Monday, Aug. 8, at 6:30 a.m. The Senate on Sunday passed a bill spending hundreds of billions of dollars on clim...
Monday, August 8, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
GOP Physicians in Congress: Drug Price Control in Reconciliation Bill Will Impact Patient Care »
A group of Republican physicians in Congress are voicing their “strong opposition” to the prescription drug pricing contro...
Monday, August 8, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Biden to Tout Bill’s Prescription Drug Prices, Energy Provisions in Pitch to Americans, Aide Says »
President Biden plans to use upcoming travel to tout the $740 billion climate, health and tax reconciliation bill passed b...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
FDA May Approve First OTC Birth Control Pill In U.S. »
The French drug maker HRA Pharma is seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to sell its birth control...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Organizations Push PBM Transparency Act »
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A letter signed by 207 organizations supports the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act, S.4293, and...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Surescripts Data Shows Prescribers Moving Away From Manual Prescribing Methods »
ARLINGTON, Va. – More prescribers and specialty pharmacists nationwide are adopting Surescripts Specialty Medications sol...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCPA, 207 Stakeholders Support Bipartisan Senate Bill Empowering FTC Action Against PBMs »
A group of 207 organizations, including the National Community Pharmacists Association, that strongly support the Pharmacy...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
FTC Caught in Balancing Act With Pharmacy Benefit Manager Probe »
The FTC will have to sift through competing claims within the pharmacy supply chain as it probes the entities that manage...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Advice for Pharmacists to Get Involved in Trade Associations, Working with Legislators »
Christine Lee-Wilson, Owner of Professional Pharmacy MD, and Nimesh Jhaveri, President, Community Pharmacy and Health, spo...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Free Birth Control Guaranteed Under Federal Law, Biden Administration Says »
The Biden administration on Thursday released guidance reiterating that free birth control is guaranteed under the Afforda...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCPA Urges FTC to Block Merger of Prime Therapeutics/Express Scripts, Magellan RX Management »
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Federal Trade Commission should sue to block Prime Therapeutics LLC/Express Scripts from acquiring M...
Monday, July 18, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
FTC Should Block Prime/ESI Acquisition of Magellan, NCPA Says »
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The proposed acquisition of Magellan RX Management by Prime Therapeutics LLC/Express Scripts would lead...
Monday, July 18, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Pharmacy Groups Respond to AMA Criticism on Pharmacists Prescribing Paxlovid »
Groups responded quickly in defense of pharmacists’ ability to prescribe Paxlovid through Test to Treat programs. The Ame...
Monday, July 18, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
LTC at Home and the Complexities of Reimbursement | RxSafe »
We believe that local independent community pharmacy has a much wider role to play in future home-care. Historically, phar...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022   (0 Comments - view/add)
Is Your Pharmacy Ready for an Unannounced Audit? »
Pharmacies are often startled with the limited amount of time a PBM offers prior to an onsite audit. However, PBM auditors...

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