National pharmacy organizations once again applaud the Senate Finance Committee’s bipartisan effort to relieve DIR fees. Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member Ron Wyden, and 23 members of the committee (over 80% of the committee) signed a letter send to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CMS Administrator Seema Verma urging them to to […]
CPF Announces Flip the Pharmacy Awardees
The Community Pharmacy Foundation has announced the 2019 “Flip the Pharmacy” awardees. These 20 “practice transformation teams” will participate in the two-year program aimed to “transform community-based pharmacies away from point-in-time, prescription-level care processes and business models to longitudinal and patient-level care processes and business models through the use of hands on coaching.” CPESN USA […]
HHS Announces “Safe” Drug Importation Plan
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week that it and the FDA are publishing a Safe Importation Action Plan with two pathways for drug importation of certain drugs from foreign markets. HHS Secretary Alex Azar stated that this “announcement outlines the pathways the Administration intends to explore to allow safe […]
National Pharmacy Organizations Address Pharmacist Well-Being Through Consensus Conference Recommendations
In response to rapid changes in pharmacy practice models and a changing and evolving health care system that impacting the well-being of the nation’s pharmacists, 85 individuals representing pharmacists and employers from across practice settings, schools and colleges of pharmacy, regulators, accreditors, and professional organizations have agreed to a set of 50 recommendations to address […]
Over 200 Pharmacy Stakeholder Groups Urge Senate Finance to Fix DIR
Over 200 pharmacy stakeholder and patient advocacy groups sent a letter to Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden, chairman and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, urging them to include DIR fee reform in their drug pricing legislation. NASPA, along with NCPA, APhA, and many state pharmacy associations, signed on to the letter. The […]
National Pharmacy Organizations Write Azar Regarding Drug Importation
NASPA, along with the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), wrote U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Azar this week regarding state prescription drug importation plans. All three organizations oppose the approval of a state drug importation program that meets a lower standard than that set […]