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Yesterday was a big step for the Modernizing and Ensuring PBM Accountability Act, a PBM reform package supported by NCPA, which advanced in a bipartisan vote of 26-1 to a vote of the full Senate. The package contains several provisions to enhance transparency into PBM-insurer operations, improve patient access to community pharmacies, and ensure fair pharmacy reimbursements that are based on actual acquisition and dispensing costs. After a full Senate vote, the next stop would be consideration by the House of Representatives, although that timeline is unclear at this time.

On June 21, the United States Congress took another step forward in its scrutiny of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to "put an end to the hidden clawback fees that are squeezing...

Arlington, VA (PRWEB) June 21, 2023 -- Organizations representing pharmacists and pharmacies are applauding the Protect Patient Access to Pharmacies Act (S.

Dear Colleague,

On June 20, Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Shelley Moore-Capito (R-W.Va.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced the Protect Patient Access to Pharmacies Act (S. 2052). This bill provides long-sought reform of abusive business practices that have permitted the monstrous growth of direct and indirect remuneration fees collected by Medicare Part D plans from pharmacies that are resulting in pharmacy closures throughout neighborhoods.