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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

Pharmacy Times
Long-term care (LTC) pharmacies’ current prescription drug reimbursement model may not be sustainable, a new analysis suggests…Read More

Inside Health Policy
Community and long-term care pharmacists are pressing for more transparency in pharmacy benefit managers’ Maximum Allowable Cost lists that determine how much pharmacies are paid for generic drugs, pushing back against PBMs’ claims that transparency could lead to higher drug prices…Read More

McKnight’s
The shift to value based payment models, drug repackaging restrictions and consolidations are among the biggest concerns for the long-term care pharmacy sector, according to report released Thursday by research firm Avalere Health and the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition…Read More