APhA Joins NCPA Suit Against Backdoor Pharmacy Fees
Litigation aims to overturn HHS rules allowing pharmacy benefit managers to wring fees out of pharmacies and consumers long after the point of sale
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WASHINGTON, April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) today joined the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) as an equal partner in a federal lawsuit challenging a confusing scheme of retroactive fees imposed on pharmacies and, indirectly, their patients. HHS has acknowledged on multiple occasions that retroactive pharmacy DIR fees inflict harm on pharmacies and increase costs for their patients, but it has repeatedly neglected to address the problem, said APhA Executive Vice President and CEO Scott J. Knoer, MS, PharmD, FASHP. This lawsuit puts pharmacy in the driver s seat. We demand that HHS meet its obligations and use its authority to stop PBMs from operating without accounta
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Good morning, it’s Monday, April 12, 2021. By the time you read this, Hideki Matsuyama will have returned the green jacket he won at August National Golf Club yesterday to its storied closet before heading back to Japan for a hero’s welcome.
A reticent star even in normal circumstances, Matsuyama all but conceded afterward that the absence of a huge contingent of Japanese sports journalists (we’re still in COVID world, remember) probably helped him stay calm as he cruised to victory in the 85
th Masters Tournament.
Matsuyama is the first Masters champion from Japan, a place where the sport is hugely popular but PGA tour champions are rare: No Japanese golfer had ever finished in the top three at Augusta National or, for that matter, won a “major” (the Masters, the PGA, the U.S. Open, and the British Open). That’s not true anymore, as no less an authority than five-time green jacket winner Tiger Woods noted Sunday.