NCPA launches new PBM ad campaign
By HME News Staff
Updated 11:37 AM CST, Wed December 8, 2021
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Community Pharmacists Association is going live in the Washington, D.C., media market with a seven-figure television ad buy urging senators to finalize language to reform PBM direct and indirect remuneration fees in Medicare Part D. CMS has disclosed that PBMs increased these retroactive fees on pharmacies by 91,500% from 2010-19. “PBMs are gaming the system at the expense of patient access and local pharmacies, and they won’t stop until they’re forced to,” said B. Douglas Hoey, NCPA CEO. “Policymakers in states across the country are working to rein them in but, unfortunately, despite bipartisan support for change, the federal government has been slow to act. Community pharmacy will keep fighting on all fronts to regulate PBMs and change our health care system so it better supports the patients and programs it’s supposed to serve, but the federal government has to take action to defend seniors and small businesses.” The *ad will run at least through the end of December.
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