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Feb 20, 2018
To help elderly patients, CMS should prohibit PBM fees – not reform them
McKnight’s
Over just the past few years, the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) – CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx – have come to control more than 80% of prescriptions dispensed in America…Read more. -
Feb 8, 2018
Desperate Fig Leaf: PBM Effort to Use Non-Interference Clause to Systematize Price-Gouging
Morning Consult
From the standpoint of the widening national debate on drug pricing issues, 2017 was a watershed year…Read more. -
Jan 16, 2018
Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition Comments on Part D Proposed Rule
January 16, 2018 Via Electronic Submission The Honorable Seema Verma, M.P.H. Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attn: CMS-4182-P 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21244 Dear Administrator Verma: The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the proposed rule entitled “Medicare Program: Contract Year […]
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Nov 10, 2017
Time to Pull the Plug on Unaccountable PBM Middlemen
Morning Consult
Draining the “Washington Swamp” is a staple of today’s political and campaign discourse. But there also exists a health policy “swamp” brought to light at the recent Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing regarding the prescription drug distribution chain…Read More. -
Oct 11, 2017
House Lawmakers To CMS: Make Plans Share More Part D Rebates With Beneficiaries
Inside Health Policy
Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition President and CEO Alan Rosenbloom praised lawmakers for prodding CMS to do its job of overseeing the private deals that are supposed to benefit beneficiaries…Read More. -
Oct 2, 2017
It’s time to eliminate the secretive Pharmacy Benefit Manager pricing practices
The Hill
With federal lawmakers introducing a variety of bipartisan, bicameral legislation throughout 2017 aimed at eliminating opaque and secretive Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) pricing practices, the increasingly controversial middlemen…Read More. -
Aug 1, 2017
Market Reforms To Improve Pharmaceutical Outcomes
Forbes
The drama of “repeal and replace” resembled an unfunny version of a Monty Python skit, continuously claiming that it was “not dead yet”, and even that it was “getting better” only to be put out of its misery in the end…Read More. -
Jul 31, 2017
Sector-specific LTC pharmacy data warehouse now a reality
APhA
As medication management regimes and clinical functions become more complex, assisted living and skilled-nursing facilities will need to turn to the expertise of long-term care (LTC) pharmacies…Read More. -
Jul 19, 2017
Sector-specific LTC pharmacy data warehouse now a reality
McKnight’s
Ensuring the provision of quality post-acute care in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities requires the need to direct and perform an increasingly complex array of medication management regimes and clinical functions…Read More.
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