NACDS’ Nourish Ny Health initiative, a newly released Milken Institute Action Plan, and a Leavitt Partners report on pharmacy data interoperability are among the latest.
NACDS: “The Congress and states need no further validation for their bipartisan work to immediately confront pharmaceutical benefit manipulation that is devastating Americans, communities, and pharmacies of all sizes”
NACDS: “These harms are experienced brutally by pharmacies of diverse sizes and formats, including independents and chains, that do not receive preferential treatment from their vertically integrated plans and PBMs”
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Wyden letter urges Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to “conduct immediate oversight and rigorous regulatory enforcement of specific Medicare Part D program requirements for plan sponsors and their PBMs.”
NACDS also is urging Congress to enact in the 118th Congress PBM reforms in Medicare, Medicaid and the commercial markets: all levels and branches of government must do their jobs.
“Confronting the PBMs’ self-enriching tactics requires state and federal legislators and policymakers to do their part.”
PBMs represent a “staggering national problem.”
Urges Congress: no further delays in enacting bipartisan reforms to reduce Americans’ drug costs and to protect access to pharmacies and prescribed medications.
The newly released Action Plan comes as part of NACDS’ joint commitment with the Milken Institute to the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities
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