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McKnight’s
A bill that would exempt long-term care pharmacies from a controversial “lock-in” provision received final passage from the Senate on Wednesday and now heads to the president’s desk…Read More

McKnight’s
New repackaging guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration could place “literally every LTC facility and associated pharmacy in America” at risk of failing to meet Medicare and Medicaid regulatory requirements, a senior care executive said last week…Read More

Tulsa World
Most people are familiar with their local retail pharmacy — you get a prescription, take it to the pharmacy and go home with your medication…Read More

The Telegraph
Congress has recently taken a close look at prescription drug pricing abuses, and for good reason, as prescription medications are a part of almost every American’s daily life…Read More

True Trends Blog & Podcast
True North talks about the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition, pharmacy benefit managers, and ongoing long term care pharmacy trends and issues with Alan Rosenbloom; President and CEO of the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition…Read More

Savannah Morning News
On behalf of Medicare patients in Georgia who rely on long term care (LTC) pharmacies for their prescription medication, I’d like to thank Congressman Buddy Carter, R-Ga., for advocating for increased transparency and fairness in prescription drug pricing…Read More

Morning Consult
When the notorious former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO, Martin Shkreli, made a recent appearance on Capitol Hill to “invoke [his] fifth amendment rights” at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on prescription drug pricing abuses, focus on his alleged misdeeds served a useful purpose: he put a face on the need for more competition and pricing transparency in America’s increasingly complex and tumultuous pharmaceutical marketplace…Read More

McKnight’s
A bill passed by the Senate on Thursday is earning praise from a leading long-term care pharmacy group for exempting nursing homes from its controversial “lock-in” provision that limits Medicare beneficiaries to using one pharmacy…Read More

Specialty Pharmacy Continuum
Robert Warnock, PharmD, realized that he had a problem. The senior vice president of pharmacy services for PruittHealth, Dr. Warnock oversees pharmacy services for five long-term care (LTC) pharmacies affiliated with Pruitt, which operates about 100 skilled care nursing facilities in the Southeast…Read More