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NCPA backs legislation to bolster Medicare

May 22, 2017 by Chain Drug Review Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, H.R. 1038, H.R. 1316, H.R. 1939, H.R. 592, independent community pharmacies, Medicare, National Community Pharmacists Association, NCPA Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Community Pharmacists Association urged leaders in the House of Representatives to enact a slate of bills that would foster access to pharmacy services in Medicare. NCPA said Monday that it submitted comments for a House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on Medicare and offered suggestions to enhance the program

Congressmen take aim at PBMs

March 7, 2017 by Chain Drug Review Austin Scott, Brian Babin, Buddy Carter, Dave Loebsack, Doug Collins, H.R. 1316, John Duncan, Mark Merritt, National Community Pharmacists Association, NCPA, PBMs, PCMA, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, pharmacy benefit managers, prescription drug costs, Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act, video Videos

A half-dozen congressmen pointed a finger at pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) on the floor of the House of Representatives last week in an hour of comments on the high cost of prescriptions drugs, the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) said in its Executive Update e-newsletter. In the session, Reps. Doug Collins (R., Ga.), Brian Babin