Content about Healthcare reform in the United States

June 6, 2010
NCPA applauds Reps. Berry, Jones for urging prompt pay law enforcement by Part D plans

An effort by two representatives to urge the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to...

June 3, 2010
NDA provision a win-win for Tricare members, retail pharmacies

A provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2011 delivers a prize...

May 31, 2010
House passes bill to prevent increase in military co-pays at retail pharmacies

Moving on behalf of community pharmacy advocates, the House of Representatives has passed a military...

May 25, 2010
Analysis: Medicaid to cover more Americans, reduce uninsured rates across all states

The expansion of Medicaid under the new health-reform law significantly will increase the number of...

May 20, 2010
Retail clinics should join front lines of America's health care

Emergency room visits have been -- and continue to be -- on the rise, and...

May 19, 2010
NCPA supports Medicaid funding inclusion in jobs bill

An economic-stimulus legislation's provision that seeks to extend the federal Medicaid matching rate has received...

May 18, 2010
NCPA praises CMS' pursuit of Medicare Part D payments from insurer

Following an industry group's collection of Medicare payment complaints, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

May 16, 2010
CMS nominee an advocate for change in health payment and innovation

If approved by the U.S. Senate, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Centers for...

May 6, 2010
CPhA hails injunction to halt Medi-Cal cuts

A pharmacy organization heralded a federal court decision Wednesday to halt cuts to California’s state...

May 5, 2010
Drugstore.com inks deal with BioScrip

Drugstore.com on Wednesday announced an agreement with BioScrip Pharmacy Services to sell the assets of...

April 18, 2010
Weighing in on health reform

Want to weigh in on healthcare reform? What do you think it weighs, anyway—Congress’ Patient...

March 25, 2010
New challenges on the horizon as healthcare overhaul made official

After more than a year that spawned bitter debate, a tea party, a growing divide...

March 22, 2010
Sweeping healthcare overhaul becomes law

Capping a tumultuous, yearlong battle that came to define both his presidency and the increasingly...

March 21, 2010
Health reform draws pharma’s support, but alarm from insurance industry

Passage of the mammoth health-reform bill Sunday night by the U.S. House of Representatives is...

March 21, 2010
PhRMA, BIO, GPhA weigh in on healthcare-reform bill passage

While calling it “not perfect,” an organization representing the country’s drug manufacturers called the healthcare-reform...

March 15, 2010
NCPA: Drug manufacturers should pay rebates in DoD's Tricare program

The National Community Pharmacists Association expressed support of the U.S. Department of Defense's efforts to...

March 9, 2010
NACDS, NCPA praise passage of Senate's 'jobs' bill

Two organizations representing the drug retailing industry and the nation's independent pharmacies applauded the passage...

March 4, 2010
Biosimilars could bring down specialty drug spending

If Medicare Part D is to remain solvent in the future, then lawmakers may want...

March 4, 2010
SXC Health Solutions signs PBM contract with HealthSpring

A leading provider of pharmacy benefit management products and services announced that its informedRx PBM...

March 2, 2010
NCPA reaches out to CMS regarding violations of 'prompt pay' provisions

The National Community Pharmacists Association is urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to...

March 1, 2010
GAO: Specialty drugs accounted for 10% of Medicare Part D spending in 2007

The kinds of high-cost drugs commonly dispensed in specialty pharmacies accounted for 10% of the...

March 1, 2010
NACDS, NCPA support healthcare provisions in new Senate ‘jobs’ bill

Two organizations catering to the drug retailing industry and the nation's independent pharmacies expressed strong...

February 25, 2010
MTM services send Kerr Drug to head of the class

For the second year in a row, Raleigh, N.C.-based Kerr Drug has earned high marks...

February 21, 2010
President Obama releases new healthcare-reform proposal, NCPA responds

An organization representing the nation's independent pharmacies responded Monday to a new White House healthcare-reform...

February 18, 2010
Medicaid without retail pharmacy: A recipe for disaster

Simply put, if you take a significant number of retail pharmacies out of the Medicaid...

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