ARLINGTON, Va. – The current edition of NACDS Cites Harvard Business Review Article to Advance Roles of Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians Harvard Business Review presents more than 300,000 readers with a compelling case for pharmacy patient care, and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) is working to extend its reach. NACDS president and CEO Steven Anderson, published
ARLINGTON, Va. – The value of pharmacy is on display in the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Literature Program. Most recently, the third of three articles prepared by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Center for High-Value Health Care has been published by Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. Considered as a whole, the article series
ARLINGTON, Va. – The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) is welcoming the strongest signal yet by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that a standardized pharmacy quality program should be created to help reduce patients’ out-of-pocket drug costs and to help patients maintain critical access to their pharmacies. Currently, quality measures
ARLINGTON, Va. — Executive Order 13890, signed by President Donald Trump to “protect and improve the Medicare program,” can only succeed if Medicare beneficiaries have access across the care continuum, including community pharmacies, NACDS has told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In comments to CMS related to Executive Order 13890, NACDS president and
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has opened a new front in the battle to maximize the impact of pharmacy care on the well-being of patients and the efficient operation of the health care system. In an extensive set of comments sent to Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General by
ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has taken the fight for pharmacy care to an intriguing and potentially highly consequential arena. A federal agency will decide whether pharmacies should be included in the definition of “value-based enterprise (VBE) participant,” and NACDS’ comments answer that question with an emphatic yes. In a
ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Supreme Court will review the Eighth Circuit Court’s decision that put the brakes on Arkansas’ law that would ensure that pharmacy reimbursement rates cover pharmacies’ costs of purchasing drugs. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) expressed appreciation for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case, which
I am writing this article on the heels of NACDS Week in New York City in the first week of December. NACDS Week in New York City is a series of NACDS and NACDS Foundation events. Over the course of just a few days, these events seem to create the right mindset for thinking in
ARLINGTON, Va. — NACDS has taken the fight for pharmacy patient care to an intriguing and potentially highly consequential arena. A federal agency will decide whether pharmacies should be included in the definition of “value-based enterprise (VBE) participant,” and NACDS’ comments answer that question with a powerfully substantiated “yes.” In a proposed rule, the U.S. Department
ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Association of Chain Drug Stores announced its speakers for its 2020 Annual Meeting, which is set to take place April 25-28, at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Ariz. Jon Meacham will be the headline speaker at the NACDS’ Business Program on Sunday, April 26. Meacham is a presidential historian and Pulitzer
WASHINGTON — A coalition of national pharmacy groups on Tuesday applauded the latest version of the bipartisan Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act, released Friday by the Senate Finance Committee, which they say addresses backdoor clawback fees charged by large pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that are shuttering pharmacies and costing patients more at the pharmacy counter.
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ARLINGTON, Va. — The recipients of the NACDS Foundation’s Excellence in Patient Care Award will be honored on December 4, 2019, yet their story already has captured the attention of Altoona, Pa.’s CBS affiliate. The TV station aired a story just one day after the NACDS Foundation announced the awardees: Janice Pringle, founder and director
ARLINGTON, Va. – Project Lifeline – a community partnership and research program initiated by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation to address substance use disorder (SUD) – will take center stage at the upcoming NACDS Foundation Dinner. Two individuals who have led to the program’s effectiveness in preventing and treating opioid abuse
