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  • Congress passes Ensuring Patient Access Act

    ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 (S. 483) in the same version passed by the Senate, making President Obama’s consideration and signature the final step before enactment.
     
    The legislation, advocated by both retail pharmacy and the pharma industry, would advance collaboration among health and enforcement authorities to achieve drug abuse solutions that maintain patients’ legitimate access to medications.

  • ePrescribing Message Types: An Expanding Opportunity

    Better industry collaboration equates to better patient care and lower costs. This industry-recognized truth is especially true within medication management processes, where errors and preventable adverse events are a focal point of national attention.

  • NACDS, NCPA reach out to maintain TRICARE beneficiary access to Rx meds

    WASHINGTON – In their ongoing commitment to protect TRICARE beneficiaries’ access to prescription medications, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the National Community Pharmacists Association sent letters last week to the chairmen and ranking members of the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee urging them to protect TRICARE beneficiary access by refusing to further increase retail community pharmacist copayments. 

  • Special DSN report examines pharmacy’s ‘impact’

    Drug Store News in March published the fifth edition of RxImpact, a special supplement to DSN, produced in support of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ RxImpact Day on Capitol Hill. The special Rx-Impact report — inserted in headquarter copies of this issue of DSN and delivered to all current members of the U.S.

  • Senate passes Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act

    WASHINGTON — The Senate this week unanimously passed the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act to help ensure that prescription drugs land in the hands of patients and not those who would abuse them.  
     

  • NACDS: Pharmacists make impact on Congress with new ad debut

  • 2016 NACDS RxIMPACT Day boasts highest participation among retailers, students

    WASHINGTON - Now in its eighth year, the 2016 National Association of Chain Drug Stores RxIMPACT Day on Capitol Hill kicked off by showcasing both quantity and quality in grassroots advocacy and political engagement.
     
    The event that is bringing nearly 400 pharmacy advocates to Capitol Hill on March 16 and 17 to meet with 90% of the U.S. Congress also is recognizing with a series of awards those who help to set the standard for advancing and telling the story of pharmacy patient care.
     

  • Dialed into real health reform

    RxImpact 2016This month, DSN published the fifth edition of RxImpact, a special stand-alone report that we produce to help educate lawmakers about the ever-expanding role community pharmacy plays in our nation’s healthcare system. The issues are stuffed into kits that National Association of Chain Drug Store members leave behind with members of Congress during desk-side meetings that are organized by NACDS.

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