News & Insights
Find up-to-date information and news regarding important policy and industry updates affecting the long-term care pharmacy community. This page is updated regularly to include new research and federal policy impacts on this community.
Press Releases & Statements
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Releases & Statements
07/24/2024
Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition Launches “Save Senior Rx Care” to Protect Senior Access to Life-Saving Medications and Services
Led by the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), America’s long-term care (LTC) pharmacies are launching Save Senior Rx Care, a new campaign urging Congress to protect access to life-saving medications and services for the millions of Americans who need long-term care.
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07/17/2024
New Report Underscores Unique Role LTC Pharmacies Play in Serving Complex Needs of Medicare Beneficiaries in Long-Term Care
A new report from the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), the nation’s leading voice for long-term care (LTC) pharmacies, and ATI Advisory (ATI) highlights the clinical and functional complexity faced by millions of Medicare beneficiaries residing in nursing facilities and assisted living.
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06/27/2024
Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition Releases Statement on New Congressional Letter Regarding ESI Contracts
The Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), the leading national voice for the long-term care pharmacy community, released a statement today in response to the recent letter to Assistant Secretary Martinez-Lopez and Lieutenant General Crosland regarding Express Scripts (ESI) contracts within TRICARE.
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In the News
07/24/2024
LTC pharmacies demand ‘sustainable’ payment model ahead of 2026 drug-pricing changes
Many of the nation’s long-term care pharmacies are going to fall below “break-even” and may be forced out of business without additional support when drug-pricing policy changes kick in, sector advocates warned Wednesday.
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03/11/2024
Drug pricing efforts threaten ‘very existence’ of LTC pharmacies: reps
President Biden in his State of the Union address last week vowed to end “Big Pharma’s” grip on prescription drug pricing and cut costs for seniors and taxpayers by another $200 million.
But the president’s plans to expand his administration’s first-ever Medicare drug price negotiations could spell big trouble for the pharmacists who support seniors living in long-term care settings, advocates warned in response.
In the News
03/08/2024
President Biden Announces Desire to Cap Drug Prices for All Americans
In the State of the Union Address on March 7th, President Joseph Biden announced a proposal to expand the number of drugs targeted for annual price negotiations by Medicare and lower prescription drug costs for American families.
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Policy & Sector Insights
The LTC pharmacy sector is in constant change with new research, policies and news.
Policy & Sector Insights
10/17/2022
The surprising group that will be hit hard by drug pricing reform
By Rachel CohrsSTAT Obviously, pharmaceutical companies are upset that they’re going to lose money from Medicare under Democrats’ new drug pricing law. But there’s another, less obvious group that’s concerned as well — long-term care pharmacies that serve almost entirely Medicare patients, and dispense the drugs that will likely enter the price negotiation program first. […]
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10/14/2022
Military Veterans Deserve Uninterrupted Pharmacy Access
Military Retirees Will Lose Long-Term Care Pharmacy Services as soon as Oct. 24, 2022 TRICARE and its Pharmacy Benefit: The TRICARE program, operated by the Department of Defense (Defense Health Agency), covers 9.6 million active-duty service members and their family members, along with military retirees, many of whom live in long-term care (LTC) facilities like […]
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01/07/2022
Prescription Drug Policy, 2021 And 2022: The Year In Review, And The Year Ahead
By Rachel Sachs Health Affairs This past year was filled with news in the prescription drug policy area, from the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) most controversial drug approval in many years to ongoing discussions in Congress over drug pricing reform. Through it all, the importance of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic has remained at […]
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