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Morning Consult
In 2013, Congress passed the Drug Quality and Security Act to strengthen the Food and Drug Administration’s supervision of compounded drugs. This legislation, passed in response to a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis, is well intentioned and designed to protect patient safety…Read More

Inside Health Policy
A long term care pharmacy coalition is calling on Congress to legislatively define the term “LTC pharmacy” in an effort to harmonize what it says are conflicting CMS, FDA and Environmental Protection Agency regulations…Read More

Long-Term Living Magazine
The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) wants Congress to iron out the complex maze of federal and state regulations and policies governing long-term care (LTC) pharmacies, warning that differing definitions and overlapping jurisdictions may jeopardize seniors’ access to quality care coordination…Read More

American Pharmacists Association
The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) on September 6 released a new policy brief warning how differing, conflicting regulations from federal agencies with jurisdiction over long-term care (LTC) pharmacies can threaten older adults’ care during their progression across multiple settings…Read More

The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (“SCPC”), on behalf of the long term care (“LTC”) pharmacies it represents and the residents of LTC facilities whom those pharmacies serve, is writing to ask your help in reconciling a conflict between two of the agencies within your Department – the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) – related to packaging of prescription drugs in long term care (“LTC”) pharmacies…Read More

McKnight’s
The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition has welcomed PharMerica Corporation as a member…Read More

American Pharmacists Association
The American Health Care Association, the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), and the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists assert in a recent letter to FDA that “there is no evidence that LTC pharmacy repackaging has ever created a health or safety issue for LTC residents…Read More

Inside Health Policy
Three trade associations jointly wrote to FDA Senior Science Advisor Julie Dohm on July 15 seeking carve-outs for Long Term Care (LTC) pharmacies under the agency’s draft repackaging guidance released in February 2015…Read More

McKnight’s
Drug repackaging guidelines proposed by the Food and Drug Administration could have detrimental effects on skilled nursing care costs and quality, healthcare groups recently told the agency…Read More