ALEXANDRIA, Va. – An egregious Tricare/Express Scripts (ESI) recoupment faced by hundreds of compounding pharmacies across the country is ending, thanks to the work of two industry trade associations, the Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding and the National Community Pharmacists Association. It began back in June, when about 400 compounding pharmacies across the U.S. received a
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Jonathan Harward, pharmacy manager at Josefs Pharmacy in Raleigh, N.C., was honored as the recipient of the 2020 National Preceptor of the Year Award by the National Community Pharmacists Association Foundation as part of NCPA’s Annual Convention, which was held virtually. Harward, who is originally from Carthage, N.C. and now lives in
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Pooja Patel, an assistant professor at the University of South Florida Taneja College of Pharmacy in Tampa, Fla., has been named the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Liaison of the Year by the National Community Pharmacists Association Foundation as part of NCPA’s Annual Convention, which was held virtually. Patel received her Doctor of Pharmacy
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — New Jersey pharmacy owner Mayank Parikh has received this year’s NARD Ownership Award from the National Community Pharmacists Association Foundation as part of NCPA’s Annual Convention, which was held virtually. The NARD Ownership Award recognizes an independent community pharmacist who embraces entrepreneurial spirit through promotion and demonstrated excellence in the field of community pharmacy
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Community Pharmacists Association today launched a new campaign, “The Truth,” aimed at countering a big-money propaganda effort by the pharmacy benefit manager lobby to obscure their role in the high cost of drugs and the disappearance of neighborhood pharmacies. “PBMs are the middlemen responsible for managing prescription drug benefits for the
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A team of student pharmacists from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences was named the winner of the 17th annual Good Neighbor Pharmacy NCPA Pruitt-Schutte Student Business Plan Competition. A team from the University of Iowa was the runner-up, and a team representing the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Amina Abubakar, owner of Rx Clinic Pharmacy in Charlotte, N.C., has been named the National Community Pharmacists Association’s 2020 Willard B. Simmons Independent Pharmacist of the Year. The award is sponsored by Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC. Abubakar received the award as part of NCPA’s Annual Convention, which was held virtually Oct. 18-19, 2020.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The 2020 NCPA Digest, sponsored by Cardinal Health, was released today as part of the National Community Pharmacists Association’s Annual Convention. The NCPA Digest, which provides an annual overview of independent community pharmacy, found that the industry in 2019 represented 35 percent of all retail pharmacies in the United States and a $73.7 billion marketplace.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — William Scharringhausen, a third-generation pharmacist/pharmacy owner from Park Ridge, Ill., was awarded the 2020 John W. Dargavel Medal by the National Community Pharmacists Association Foundation as part of NCPA’s Annual Convention, which was held virtually. The McKesson Corporation sponsors the annual award that honors an individual whose contributions on behalf of independent
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Beverly Schaefer, co-owner of Katterman’s Sand Point Pharmacy in Seattle, has received the Sharlea Leatherwood Memorial Trailblazer Award from the National Community Pharmacists Association Foundation as part of NCPA’s Annual Convention, which was held virtually. The Trailblazer Award recognizes an outstanding pharmacy owner whose pharmacy practice blazes a trail for other independent
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Nasir Mahmood, owner of Pine Plains Pharmacy and resident of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., received the National Community Pharmacists Association’s 2020 Calvin J. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award. Mahmood received the award as part of NCPA’s Annual Convention, which was held virtually Oct. 18-19, 2020. The Calvin J. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award honors a pharmacist who has
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Community Pharmacists Association’s Annual Convention is set to take place Oct. 18-19, 2020. The virtual format of this year’s convention makes it easier than ever for independent community pharmacists and their teams to attend, wherever they are. It is also drawing big-name speakers including the Assistant Secretary for Health at
WASHINGTON — Today, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), the national association representing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), fought to protect access to affordable, quality prescription drug coverage in front of the United States Supreme Court in oral arguments for Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA). Argued by former Solicitor General Seth Waxman, PCMA’s case
In this week’s Video Forum, Doug Hoey, chief executive officer of the National Community Pharmacists Association, talks about some of the issues confronting independent drug stores and the larger pharmacy sector. Scope of practice, DIR fees, and Rutledge vs. PCMA, which will be taken up by the Supreme Court in October, are among the subjects
