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Pharmacy Times
A new Avalere Health study of the nation’s growing long term care (LTC) pharmacy sector – the most detailed analysis since Medicare Part D was implemented in 2006 – finds LTC pharmacies playing a greater role in seniors’ clinical care as new health payment and delivery models such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), bundled payments and value-based purchasing proliferate amid a rapidly changing healthcare marketplace…Read More

Roll Call
Americans today rightly demand more transparency in their governmental, financial and educational institutions. It is the foundation upon which to assess accountability, performance and trust…Read More

Pharmacy Times
Saying there is growing bipartisan momentum at the state level to reform the longstanding secretive and opaque Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) drug pricing policies antithetical to the interests of patients and taxpayers,the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) today praised California Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA) for signing into law AB 627, which brings badly-needed reforms to abusive PBM pricing and reimbursement practices…Read More

Politico Pulse
The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition requested and got an exemption from a provision to combat drug abuse among at-risk seniors in the Medicare program…Read More

Pharmacy Times
A new comment letter from the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requests modifications to proposed repackaging and distribution guidance as applied to long-term care (LTC) pharmacies…Read More

Inside Health Policy
At the urging of seniors’ advocates and long-term care pharmacies, House Energy & Commerce members tweaked the pharmacy lock-in measure in the latest version of their Cures bill to exempt patients in nursing homes, hospice, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded and facilities that contract with a single pharmacy to dispense frequently abused drugs…Read More

Long-Term Living
The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) says it is pleased with the Energy and Commerce Committee’s revised language in draft 21st Century Cures legislation it is considering related to programs to prevent prescription drug abuse under Medicare Parts C and D…Read More

Inside Health Policy
Long-term care pharmacies are pleased that House Energy & Commerce members opened the door to exempting them from the pharmacy lock-in plan in 21st Century Cures legislation, but they prefer to be excluded outright…Read More

McKnight’s
The head of a new long-term care pharmacy advocacy group urged Congress on Thursday to exempt Medicare beneficiaries in nursing homes and assisted living facilities from a plan that would require them to use a single pharmacy for all medications….Read More