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It s not a Typo: 91,500% Increase in Fees Heaped on Pharmacies

Hoey demands action after eye-popping budget report shows runaway increase in pharmacy DIR fees NCPA June 3, 2021 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (June 3, 2021) The CEO of the country’s largest organization of community pharmacies today called for immediate action after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services disclosed in a budget document that pharmacy benefit managers increased retroactive fees on pharmacies by an astonishing 91,500 percent in recent years.   “This is absolutely unsustainable,” said B. Douglas Hoey, CEO of the National Community Pharmacists Association, which represents more than 21,000 independently owned pharmacies across the country. Pharmacy benefit managers are companies hired by insurance plans, like Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers, to administer prescription drug benefits. They determine which drugs are covered by insurance, which pharmacies patients must use, and how much pharmacies are reimbursed for th

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Google rolls out Health Equity Tracker platform, highlighting disparities between communities

Image: Courtesy of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute The Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine today launched its Health Equity Tracker, a data platform that highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on marginalized communities. Built with support from Gilead Sciences, Google.org, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the CDC Foundation, the tracker is a data visualization tool that displays the scale of COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations across race and ethnicity, sex and age, from a whole-country view down to the county level. What’s more, the Health Equity Tracker allows users to view different conditions and determinants that have led to unequal COVID-19 outcomes, including COPD, diabetes, poverty and uninsured rates. It can also be used to compare outcomes in different locations.

More Than 130 Healthcare Groups Express Support for Legislation Expanding Medicare Patients Access to Pharmacist Services

More Than 130 Healthcare Groups Express Support for Legislation Expanding Medicare Patients Access to Pharmacist Services News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, more than 130 healthcare groups applauded the introduction of the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act (S. 1362, H.R. 2759), legislation that will ensure that Medicare beneficiaries in medically underserved areas have access to pharmacists primary care services. In a letter sent to the bill s original sponsors Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), and Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) the healthcare groups, including rural health advocates, consumer groups, and pharmacy organizations, call for the removal of restrictions on seniors access to care.

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