In the News

Morning Consult
Amid the public uproar surrounding skyrocketing drug prices, Pharmacy Benefit Managers — the pharmaceutical industry’s primary middlemen — are attracting new scrutiny from key members of Congress increasingly disturbed by benefit managers’ complex array of surreptitious pricing practices and protocols…..Read More

McKnight’s
If medication management is not at the very top of Debbie Meade’s list of most important issues, it is darn close. ….Read More

Healthcare Finance
The role of pharmacy benefit managers as “unaccountable middlemen” in the national drug pricing chain will result in a higher level of scrutiny from Congress, regulators and the media in 2017….Read More

McKnight’s
Guidance on medication repackaging recently published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is earning praise from one long-term care pharmacy group, which says the final guidelines help reduce drug-related risks for residents….Read More

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