Releases & Statements

With the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) today holding its 2017 “PBM Policy Forum” at the Newseum, the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) said the gathering and its discussion is yet another attempt to divert attention away…Read More

As Congress reconvenes this week, the increasingly controversial role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in the national drug pricing chain are again in the spotlight as bipartisan, bicameral bills to limit opaque PBM pricing practices drive the drug pricing discussion…Read More

As escalating drug prices have increasingly roiled consumers throughout Georgia, national and state Long Term Care (LTC) pharmacy leaders today praised the vigorous, persistent and effective efforts of U.S. Reps. Doug Collins (R-GA) and Buddy Carter (R-GA) in taking on the increasingly controversial Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) middlemen…Read More

Noting a torrent of bipartisan legislation recently introduced requiring Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) drug middlemen to pull back the curtain on veiled, opaque pharmaceutical pricing practices, the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) today backed Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) “Creating Transparency to Have Drug Rebates Unlocked Act” (C-THRU) bill…Read More

Following U.S. Senate confirmation of Seema Verma as the new Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) praised her approval and said the Long-Term Care (LTC) Pharmacy advocacy group looks forward to working with her to hold Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) more accountable for the opaque, controversial pricing practices that have spurred Congress to propose multiple legislative remedies to do so…Read More

In praising U.S. Reps. Doug Collins (R-GA) and Dave Loebsack (D-IA) for introducing the Prescription Drug Price Transparency Act (H.R. 1316), Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) President and CEO Alan G. Rosenbloom observed that the nation’s drug pricing middlemen — Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) — are rightly facing a growing barrage of criticism from a widening group of bipartisan lawmakers demanding answers about rising prescription drug prices, and the practices driving increases……Read More

Washington, DC — In conjunction with questions directed to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator-nominee Seema Verma from members of the Senate Finance Committee, the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) today praised Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) for raising key issues of concern to the nation’s long term care (LTC) pharmacy sector…..Read More

Washington, DC — The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) today backed legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives that will curtail the ability of drug industry middlemen — Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) — from extracting retroactive direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees in transactions with patients, long term care (LTC) pharmacies and the Medicare program….Read More

Listen to SCPC Vice-Chairman Fred Burke on Atlanta Business Radio discuss the vital role of Long-Term Care Pharmacies and how veiled pricing practices by PBMs are affecting patients……Read More