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Friday, December 13, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Bipartisan Bills in Congress Would Force Insurance Companies, PBMs to Sell Pharmacies »
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced bills into both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate that would...
Friday, December 13, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Senators, Representatives Introduce Bill That Would Ban Joint Ownership of PBMs and Pharmacies »
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley and Representatives Diana Harshbarger and Jake Auchincloss introduced the Patien...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Pharmacy Policy Champions Send Letter to DOJ on PBMs’ Role in Opioid Crisis »
NCPA  December 5, 2024 Last week some of our pharmacy champions in Congress—Reps. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), Raja Krishna...
Saturday, December 7, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Pharmacy Organizations Call on U.S. Congress to Deliver PBM Reform This Year »
Washington, DC  –  A coalition of organizations representing pharmacies and pharmacists across all practice sett...
Thursday, December 5, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Members of Congress call out PBMs’ harmful practices »
NCPA  December 5, 2024 press conferenceYesterday, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) was joined by 14 bipartisan members of C...
Thursday, December 5, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Employers Face Higher Healthcare Costs in 2025, and May Adopt New Approaches »
The Business Group on Health says cost increases will drive companies to try new strategies to control costs, including so...
Thursday, December 5, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Independent Drugstore Closures Threaten to Turn Communities Into "Pharmacy Deserts" »
From medicine to milkshakes, Kempson Rexall drugstore has been a staple in the small community of Inman, South Carolina, s...
Thursday, December 5, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
A Look Back at the Affordable Care Act »
The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 to make health care and prescription medicine more accessible. Did it succeed?...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
From School to the Workforce, Burnout Plagues Every Level of Pharmacy »
Burnout and stress are feelings that many experience throughout periods of their lives, whether it be at work, school, or...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Congressional GOP Offers New Proposal on Year-End Health Package »
Republicans on Capitol Hill have sent a preliminary offer to Democrats for numerous health care policies to be tacked onto...
Friday, November 8, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Expert: Independent Pharmacies Express Unique Value to Providers, Community »
Tripp Logan, PharmD, reflects on being named Independent Pharmacist of the Year from the National Community Pharmacists As...
Thursday, November 7, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
What Happens to Medicare Price Negotiations Under Trump? »
In 2022, the Biden administration passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which allowed Medicare to negotiate prescripti...
Monday, November 4, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
GoodRx, PBMs Accused of Suppressing Reimbursements to Independent Pharmacies »
Nov 4 (Reuters) - Drug coupon aggregator GoodRx and pharmacy benefit managers including CVS Caremark (CVS.N), opens new ta...
Thursday, October 31, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Lobbying Groups Pushing Priorities in Year-End Package and In 2025 »
All year, lawmakers have debated contentious policies impacting payers, including Medicare Advantage and the future of pha...
Thursday, October 31, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
How to Turn Patient Visits into Clinical Encounters in the Pharmacy | NCPA 2024 »
Today, effective and executional pharmacy workflow relies on the common goal of shortening wait times and streamlining ser...
Thursday, October 31, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Independent Pharmacies Should Expand Their Vaccination Programs | NCPA 2024 »
“Pharmacies are the place to get your vaccines,” said David Ha, PharmD, BCIDP. “That is being widely recognized by patient...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Why Your Next Prescription Could Include an App »
Federal regulators are confronting a new twist in drug development: manufacturers that include software with the medicine...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Best Practices for Proactively Preventing PBM Audit Issues | NCPA 2024 »
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) routinely conduct audits on independent pharmacies with the stated goal of preventing fra...
Monday, October 28, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Rep. Maloy and Colleagues Introduce Bill to Investigate How PBMs Unfairly Audit Pharmacies »
Reps. Celeste Maloy (R-UT), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) introduced the Pharmacy Audit and Com...
Monday, October 7, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCPA Pushes Prompt Pay As Cure for Part D »
After repeated warning about the devastating impact of the Medicare Part D benefit, NCPA officials finally have the data t...
Friday, October 4, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Biden’s Drug Program Will Fail if Pharmacies Are Paid Too Little and Too Late »
CMS’ failure to require timely, sufficient pharmacy reimbursement will lead to closures not seen since the start of Part D...
Thursday, October 3, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
FTC Commissioner Holyoak Tours Utah Community Pharmacy »
On Tuesday, Kevin DeMass, the owner of the Apothecary Shoppe in Salt Lake City, hosted FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak al...
Thursday, October 3, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Support Independent Community Pharmacies Affected By Hurricane Helene »
Hurricane Helene was one of the deadliest, costliest storms in U.S. history. The NCPA Foundation is providing funds to tho...
Thursday, October 3, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
HIV PrEP Moved From Medicare Part D to Part B, Effective Immediately »
NCPA  October 3, 2024 CMS issued a final national coverage determination (NCD) stating that for claims with dates of...
Thursday, October 3, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
To Aid Addiction Treatment, Lawmakers Tell DEA to Back Off Buprenorphine Enforcement »
Two Democratic lawmakers are pushing the Drug Enforcement Administration to take a more lax approach to regulating bupreno...
Thursday, October 3, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Message Regarding Prescriptions for Displaced NC Medicaid Beneficiaries »
Dear Pharmacists,   Hurricane Helene is the worst natural disaster to ever hit western North Carolina.  Th...
Monday, September 23, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
FTC Sues Major Pharmacy Benefit Managers Over Insulin Prices »
The agency’s complaint filed Friday alleges Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx steered patients toward higher priced i...
Saturday, September 21, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Federal Trade Commission Accuses Three Drug Middlemen of Inflating Insulin Prices »
The Federal Trade Commission said Friday that it is suing three drug middlemen, accusing them of inflating insulin prices....
Friday, September 20, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Independent Pharmacy Cheers FTC Action Against PBMs »
Rebates increase drug prices, says NCPA   ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Sept. 20, 2024) – The National Community Pharmacists Asso...
Friday, September 20, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
FTC Alleges Caremark Rx, Express Scripts, Optum Rx Inflated Insulin Prices »
Insulin prices increased 1,200% in 18 years because of unfair rebate practices: FTC The Federal Trade Commission is suing...
Thursday, September 19, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
NACDS to the U.S. Congress: Enact the Full Array of Reforms on Which Bipartisan Consensus Achieved »
Washington, DC – The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) this week welcomed further action at the federal le...
Monday, September 16, 2024
Pharmacy School Enrollment In the U.S. is Dangerously Low — Especially in Missouri. »
In the midst of a national pharmacist shortage, education foretells the future. Here is the stat: the U.S. Bureau of Labo...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
NACDS Continues to Press for Federal PBM Reform »
Washington, DC – The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) is keeping up the pressure on the urgent need for p...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Chairman Comer Calls on PBM Executives to Correct Hearing Testimony »
WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is calling on the CEOs of th...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024   (0 Comments - view/add)
Physician Shortage Provides Opportunity for Pharmacists to Step Up »
From administrative burdens and burnout to health care consolidation and a Medicare system in need of reform, it’s perhaps...

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