October 2023 - SCPC | Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition

Oct 28, 2025

‘Devastating consequences’ if LTC pharmacy subsidy doesn’t materialize

The average long-term care pharmacy will see its operating margin decline 35% by 2027, thanks to the financial effects of Medicare’s drug price negotiation program.

Oct 27, 2025

New Report Demonstrates Worsening Impact of Medicare Part D Negotiated Drug Prices on Long-Term Care Pharmacies and the Vulnerable Seniors They Serve

Harbinger of deepening long-term care crisis in 2026 unless Congress swiftly passes essential LTC Pharmacy Fix Washington, D.C. — The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), the national voice for the long-term care (LTC) pharmacy sector, today released the Economic Impact of Medicare Part D Negotiated Drug Prices on Long-Term Care Pharmacy Economics, with analytics performed […]

Oct 27, 2025

Op-ed: California Seniors Face a Looming Long-Term Care Pharmacy Crisis—Congress and President Trump Can Fix It

Every day across California, seniors depend on long-term care (LTC) facilities and the specialized pharmacies that keep them healthy, safe, and stable. These LTC pharmacies are a lifeline—providing not just prescriptions, but clinical oversight, 24/7 medication delivery, patient-specific packaging, and consulting pharmacists who ensure that complex medication regimens are accurate and effective.

Oct 14, 2025

Pharmacy Community Stands Together to Protect Seniors and Prevent a Long-Term Care Crisis

The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), representing the nation’s long-term care pharmacies, the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP), representing pharmacists and pharmacies dedicated to managing medications for older adults and medically complex patients, and the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), representing community pharmacists nationwide, stand united in support of immediate action—whether through legislation or […]

Oct 10, 2025

Rep. Beth Van Duyne: Congress can save seniors’ access to medications before it’s too late

Seniors in nursing homes across the country depend on round-the-clock care and medications, perhaps more than any other American patient population. In turn, the nursing homes and assisted living facilities that care for them depend on a small number of specialized long-term care (LTC) pharmacies to ensure their patients have access to the prescription meds they need.

Oct 16, 2023

Who benefits behind the scenes from high prescription drug prices?

If there’s one thing most Americans still agree on, it’s that the ever-increasing cost of healthcare is simply unsustainable. And while there is plenty of blame to go around, one must look at who benefits behind the scenes from inflated prices — particularly for prescription medications — to really understand the root of the problem.

Oct 21, 2022

Rosenbloom: Curb PBMs’ power

Despite the purported value of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), drug prices remain unaffordable for many Americans (“Prescription drug pricing reform must rein in pharmacy benefit managers,” Web, Oct. 18). As middlemen between the manufacturers, pharmacies and consumers, PBMs are notorious for abusive business practices that impact both patients’ wallets and their access to prescription drugs, while gouging unaffiliated pharmacies.

Oct 19, 2022

Prescription Drug Middleman Potentially Profiting off Veterans

One of the three dominant U.S. pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—the middlemen that handle the vast majority of prescription drug plans in the United States—has instituted a scheme that has left roughly 400,000 active-duty and retired military households scrambling for a new pharmacy provider within the next week. Critics say the maneuver is a naked attempt by Express Scripts, the Cigna-owned PBM, to steer beneficiaries toward its own market-leading mail-order pharmacy.

Oct 17, 2022

The surprising group that will be hit hard by drug pricing reform

By Rachel CohrsSTAT Obviously, pharmaceutical companies are upset that they’re going to lose money from Medicare under Democrats’ new drug pricing law. But there’s another, less obvious group that’s concerned as well — long-term care pharmacies that serve almost entirely Medicare patients, and dispense the drugs that will likely enter the price negotiation program first. […]