NCPA’s 2024 Congressional Pharmacy Fly-In has begun! Follow along and share what you’re experiencing using #NCPAontheHill.
@Commpharmacy @Commpharmacy has done nothing to address reimbursement for the past 20 years. Sorry but there is zero confidence in @Commpharmacy We could care less about another bill that will take 2 years and will be easily circumvented by #PBMs
@JoseLopezRPh @Commpharmacy Zero confidence? The hundreds of pharmacists here, advocating for all of us BTW, would disagree. It’s the largest fly in we’ve ever had and we would love to have more of our colleauges join us for even bigger event next year!
@SteveMooreRx @Commpharmacy Yes. When the theme is reimbursement. Not “reining in” or “provider status”. When the discussion switches from “patient care” to “we can’t provide services at these reimbursements any longer” and that “PBMs have to be dismantled, they no longer have a place in healthcare”.
@JoseLopezRPh @Commpharmacy Have you actually read any of the bills we’re here talking about?
@JoseLopezRPh @Commpharmacy The Drug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act (H.R. 1613/S. 1038), prohibits the use of spread pricing in Medicaid managed care programs and would move to pharmacy reimbursement system based on average acquisition costs plus the state’s Medicaid FFS dispensing fee.
I think Jose is frustrated over a lot of the messaging we have seen. A lot of us are. When NCPA told us not to talk about reimbursement, it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. We have to stop playing so nice. NCPA has the resources to make sure people are in the faces of PBM executives and CMS decision makers every time they step out of their homes. The resources to have key lawmakers confronted every time they turn around in their home towns. We need to make our enemies uncomfortable in their own skin until they agree to stop robbing us. Strongly worded letters, photo ops, and nuanced messaging to CMS is not going to do it anymore. We cannot play by the rules anymore. This is a war for our existence and diplomacy is not going to cut it. NCPA doesn't even have to do it directly. There are plenty of us that would happily play dirty for them
@HokiePharmacist @SteveMooreRx @JoseLopezRPh @Commpharmacy @JAWRIII this is something you can do! You’d love it
@HokiePharmacist @SteveMooreRx @Commpharmacy This is a 100% my point. Money is not dirty. Capitalism is not dirty. We need to make money. Every business needs to make money. Let Amerisource Bergen give everything below cost. They will close within a week and 44,000 employees will lose their jobs. We have to talk money.