NCPA July 23, 2021
NCPA CEO Douglas Hoey has been elected to serve as president of the World Pharmacy Council, an international group with a mission of building international recognition of community pharmacy and its role, policies, and value to citizens around the world. He will serve in this capacity alongside his position at NCPA. “Community pharmacies in many countries have been integral to the fight against COVID-19 pandemic,” said Hoey. “I am humbled to be elected by my international colleagues to promote the work pharmacists are doing around the world to improve quality of care, lower overall health care costs, and act as local economic powerhouses to communities throughout the world.” In addition to the U.S., the WPC represents community pharmacy organizations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Australia, and New Zealand.
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NCPA June 28, 2021
In a letter to new FTC Chair Lina Khan, NCPA CEO Douglas Hoey asked the agency to continue to focus on the harm caused by vertical integration in health care. Hoey explained how this negatively affects community pharmacy and patients: anticompetitive take-it-or-leave-it contracts that favor corporate-owned pharmacies; patient steering to mail order pharmacies owned by PBMs; conflicts of interest in establishing formularies and reimbursement; and pharmacy deserts arising as a result of the anticompetitive behavior of PBMs. Hoey made similar arguments in a separate letter to the Multilateral Pharmaceutical Merger Task Force initiated by the FTC. NCPA will continue to press the agency on these important issues and ways to address them.
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NCPA May 14, 2021
Dear Colleague,
Have you ever searched high and low for something (keys, cellphone, remotes come to mind) and you finally found it right in front of you? When that happens, someone invariably says, If it was a snake it would ve bit you.
I thought about that old phrase the other day as I pondered the discoveries being made about PBM business practices. The business practices for lack of a better word of PBMs are not new. Far from it. These discoveries are consistent with NCPA s objective of
changing the pharmacy payment model. NCPA has been shining a light on examples of PBM malfeasance for decades. Lately, we re seeing more and more PBM investigations across the country and there s a temptation to think, We ve been telling you this for years. Better late than never.