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Greg Lopes, assistant vice president of strategic communications for the PBMs’ trade group, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, said the group couldn’t specifically address Ohio Medicaid’s probe of the drug chain middlemen. “PBMs will continue to work on behalf of Ohio Medicaid enrollees to reduce prescription drug costs,” he said.
“Independent drugstores want to go back to a fee-for-service model where reimbursement is exempt from quality metrics,” said the statement from PCMA Assistant Vice President Greg Lopes. “Barring pharmacy DIR in Medicare Part D would increase premiums for seniors and raise costs for taxpayers, while decreasing the quality of pharmacy care for beneficiaries.”
Over the last several years, it has become increasingly apparent that there is a growing data discrepancy between reports that rely on data from the independent pharmacy advocate and the lobbyist organization – National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and the
The COVID- 19 vaccine’s promise of a return to normalcy, or some semblance of it, is offering much-needed hope to Ohioans across the state. As many are still struggling with the health of loved ones and the ongoing economic crisis,
Over the last five years, the marketplace for independent pharmacies has experienced small fluctuations from year-to-year sometimes gaining stores, sometimes losing stores. These recent fluctuations in the overall number of stores have not dramatically shifted the independent pharmacy market.
The independent pharmacy lobby is urging state legislatures to enact new legislation targeting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that would increase fees and/or add surcharges to transactions with pharmacies. This is based upon two arguments: 1) that independent pharmacies are becoming
Pennsylvania State Facts & Resources PBM Savings and Patient Impact in Pennsylvania Pharmacy benefit experts secure lower prescription drug costs and enable better health outcomes for patients. PBMs will save Pennsylvanians $45B across all Pennsylvania insurance markets over ten years
(Washington, D.C.) — New data from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) database, highlighted today by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), shows that the independent retail pharmacy market in the United States is stable. Over the last 10 years,
Using a gold-standard pharmacy dataset from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) and a transparent methodology, PCMA produces credible research with a clear conclusion: there are more independent pharmacies now than any time over the last decade.
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