December 2022 - SCPC | Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition

Dec 6, 2022

Let’s improve LTC pharmacy policy in the home

Across all cultures and generations, caregivers have long served an integral role supporting the health of family members’ or friends in need of long-term care (LTC). In many cases, these caregivers are unpaid individuals without formal training — often a spouse, partner, family member, friend or neighbor.

Dec 16, 2021

Why the big questions about drug prices are rarely asked: It’s hard to do

By Fred D. Ledley STAT News Public debate over legislation to allow Medicare to negotiate the price of drugs has been dominated by stories of personal suffering caused by high drug prices, accounts of lifesaving cures provided by pharmaceutical innovations, and arguments regarding nuanced economic models of how reducing drug prices could affect government spending and pharmaceutical innovation. Big questions related […]

Dec 3, 2021

SCPC President and CEO Alan Rosenbloom speaks with the Pharmacy Podcast Network

SCPC President and CEO Alan Rosenbloom speaks with the Pharmacy Podcast Network about senior care in a new episode entitled, “The Mission of the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) is about Better Patient Care.” In this conversation, Alan distills the long-term care (LTC) pharmacy sector describing who they serve and the reasons LTC pharmacies are essential to […]

Dec 22, 2020

‘Out in the Cold’: LTC Pharmacies Ask to be Matched with Vaccination Sites, Relief Funds

McKnight’s Long-Term Care News By Alicia Lasek As their businesses groan under the weight of COVID-19-related expenses, long-term care pharmacists are pressing federal officials for relief funds and asking for a bigger role in coronavirus vaccinations. Many independent pharmacies were stuck in limbo last week, watching as the first wave of Pfizer vaccine doses were […]

Dec 18, 2020

Long-Term-Care Pharmacies Seek COVID-19 Vaccine Role, Govt. Relief

Inside Health Policy By John Wilkerson The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition is urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider matching nursing homes to pharmacies they have a relationship with for coronavirus vaccinations, instead of matching nearly everyone with Walgreens and CVS. Long-term-care pharmacies also are requesting the government give them money […]

Dec 17, 2020

SCPC Disappointed That HHS Again Ignores Needed Relief Request from Long-Term Care Pharmacies

Latest Distribution Fails to Aid Industry Facing Significant Financial Hardship While Caring for Most Vulnerable Patients Washington, DC – The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) today expressed disappointment that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) once again ignored long-term care (LTC) pharmacies in releasing Phase 3 COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund (PRF) dollars to […]

Dec 15, 2020

SCPC Applauds Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of State Regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Rutledge v. PCMA is an Important Step Toward Limiting PBM Oligopolistic Business Practices Washington, DC – The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) today praised the recent Supreme Court decision, Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, which upheld an Arkansas law that regulates pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to protect long-term care (LTC) and other independent pharmacies […]

Dec 18, 2019

Outpatient settings need pharmacists, but lack of reimbursement makes that tough

Modern Healthcare– December 14, 2019 By Maria Castellucci About three years ago it became clear to the leadership team at RWJBarnabas Health that pharmacists were needed in its 68 ambulatory clinics. Its providers—and the system overall—are increasingly participating in value-based contracts with payers that involve metrics related to medication adherence, adverse drug events and other […]

Dec 13, 2019

To Help Patients, Reform The Drug Pricing System Don’t Impose Price Controls

Forbes- December 13, 2019 By: Wayne Winegarden Yesterday the House passed the ill-considered “Pelosi bill” that would impose draconian price controls on drugs. Ignoring the bill’s many adverse impacts, price control advocates like Speaker Pelosi appear to believe that these command and control schemes can solve the systemic health care affordability problem. But, as the […]