The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to expand pharmacists’ roles as health care providers for veterans living in rural communities.  Read More »

Recently passed legislation now allows Medicare to pay pharmacists for services provided to beneficiaries in underserved communities. Read More »

The Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) recently announced that its president and CEO, Chip Davis, made a statement regarding the confirmation of Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Read More »

Prime Therapeutics releases report showing it held drug costs increases to just 2.5 percent for its clients in 2015. Read More »

"I'm thankful that we have the PBMs in the Part D program that are performing that negotiation on behalf of seniors." -- Seema Verma, nominee to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Read More »

High prescription drug costs mean approximately 45 million adults in the U.S., or 18 percent of Americans over the age of 18, did not fill a prescription last year, according to the nonprofit group Prescription Justice.. Read More »

Soem critics argue that decades of U.S. Food and Drug Administration safeguards could be in jeopardy with President Donald Trump’s pick for head of the FDA. Read More »

Pharmaceutical companies, trial lawyers and tort reform advocates are closely following a case that the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up that addresses the issue of plaintiffs joining suits in other states. Read More »

The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services is encouraging pharmacies to extend the scope of dispensing medications to foster immediate access to certain drugs.   Read More »

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, an extension of the Centers for Disease Control, recommends not using the live influenza vaccine due to poor efficacy.  Read More »

The U.S. House of Representative recently passed legislation that increases the role of pharmacists in patient needs by expanded the services that pharmacies offer. Read More »

In a letter sent to the U.S. House of Representatives, leaders from Americans for Tax Reform, Citizens Against Government Waste, and the National Taxpayers Union, urged congressional members to "oppose any attempts to change the successful and cost-saving process by which drug prices are negotiated for Medicare Part D." Read More »

As the Trump Administration and new Congress signal their intent to somehow deal with the issue of rising prescription drug prices, the notion of giving the federal government more power to negotiate drug prices in Medicare Part D has been suggested as one measure that might be implemented. Two leading experts this week, however, threw cold water on that proposal, noting that such negotiations already exist and serve to bring down drug costs. Read More »

The rate of kidney failure related to diabetes among Native American adults dropped more than 50 percent between 1996 and 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported recently. Read More »

A clear plurality (almost half) of American consumers blame drug makers for high drug costs, according to a new Google Consumer Survey conducted for American Pharmacy News. Read More »

Biopharmaceutical company Amgen won a major victory in case involving the infringement of two patents held by the company. Read More »

President Donald Trump said before winning the election that the Affordable Care Act was one of the top items to be eliminated when he took office. Read More »

A measure to allow pharmacists a greater role in rural patient’s health care maintenance has been introduced to the U.S. Senate. Read More »

Robert Kennedy Jr. has announced he will chair President Donald Trump's new commission on vaccine safety. Read More »

A final rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services allows pharmacies increased flexibility to extend reward and loyalty programs to patients enrolled in government-sponsored programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Read More »