Sustaining the momentum for provider status for pharmacists was a major focus of a Chain Drug Review roundtable at the NACDS Total Store Expo. Panelists also discussed the industry’s battle with pharmacy benefit managers and the investigation of PBMs by the Federal Trade Commission, as well as friction between pharmacy and the AMA. WOLDT: Brian,
ARLINGTON, Va. – On September 22, 2022, NACDS issued the following open letter: Dear President Biden and the White House COVID-19 Task Force: Thank you for your engagement and leadership throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) represents regional and national drug stores, supermarkets, and mass merchants with pharmacies. The
ARLINGTON, Va. — On the eve of the first in-person National Association of Chain Drug Stores Annual Meeting in three years, Chain Drug Review executive editor Geoff Walden spoke with NACDS president and CEO Steve Anderson about his expectations for the event. Anderson also talked about the most pressing issues facing NACDS and the chain
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores is back in business. In mid-January, NACDS convened its once annual Regional Chain Conference in Palm Beach, Fla., site of the association’s legendary Annual Meeting, an event scheduled for this April, at The Breakers in Palm Beach. Viewed from any angle, the Regional Chain event was a smashing
ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s annual, flagship “The State of American Business” event and report include insights about the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) memberships’ continued and vital role in serving Americans and fighting the COVID pandemic — and preview how the industry is entering a new era of total
ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has decided to make this year’s edition of Total Store Expo a virtual event. While the news comes as a disappointment for retailers, CPG suppliers and others in the industry eager to return to face-to-face interaction with business partners, the move makes perfect sense in
ARLINGTON, Va. – During remarks at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Annual Meeting Business Program Monday, the NACDS leadership underscored the commitment of pharmacies and pharmacy teams to serving, safeguarding and healing the nation, and detailed the industry’s accomplishments, adaptability and resilience in response to the ongoing and historic challenges of the COVID-19
ARLINGTON, Va. – Focused on delivering value to the membership, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) has announced three moves to advance a pro-patient and pro-pharmacy agenda. NACDS is fully integrating its federal legislative, grassroots, political, and strategic communications functions. The Association also is focused on emphasizing a highly collaborative approach to strategic
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA’s) rulemaking that implements a 2016 law allowing for the partial filling of Schedule II controlled substances is a necessary step to help address the opioid abuse epidemic, yet changes are recommended to ensure success, according to the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. NACDS submitted comments this
ARLINGTON, Va. — Regional pharmacy operators are playing an outsize role in “restoring hope for individuals in communities throughout the country,” National Association of Chain Drug Stores president and CEO Steve Anderson said today. “This industry, and this profession, has said for decades that pharmacies can do even more as health care destinations in enhancing
With the Biden administration and the 117th Congress in place, we asked Steve Anderson, president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, to share his thoughts about the current state of the nation’s government and politics, and what it means for retail pharmacy. Implications of last month’s riot on
You may have heard this one-liner popularized in 2020: “In 2015, everyone who answered the standard question ‘where do you see yourself in five years?’ got it wrong.” Given that few people in 2015 would have foreseen themselves five years later in a mask, in quarantine and confronting COVID-19’s many challenges, that comment describes well
Steve Anderson, president and CEO of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, and Dr. Peter Cressy, Director of Executive Programs at the George Washington Leadership Institute, have a conversation about the challenges facing associations and how leaders of today can learn from leaders of the past.
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
