NEWSROOM

Welcome to the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association’s Newsroom where you can access PCMA’s latest media statements and learn more about pharmacy benefit managers’ efforts to reduce costs and increase access on prescription medications for the more than 210 million Americans.

For media or other inquiries, please contact:
Charles Coté, Senior Director of Public Affairs 202-207-3605

To learn more about PCMA’s Electronic Prescribing (E-prescribing) campaign click here.

December 2006

12.05.2006

Independent Drugstore Lobby Peddles Old Agenda to New Congress, Special-Interest Bonanza Would Cost Consumers, Medicare $55 Billion

October 2006

10.16.2006

Perryman Group: Pharmacy Benefit Managers Projected to Save Texas Consumers and Businesses $72 Billion on Prescription Drug Costs

10.11.2006

PCMA: New Survey Showing One in Ten Physicians Use Electronic Prescribing Highlights Need for a National, Uniform Standard

10.05.2006

PCMA: PBM Tools & Techniques Lower Prescription Drug Costs for Consumers & Payors

10.04.2006

PCMA Welcomes Vidalink as First International Member

September 2006

09.29.2006

PCMA Applauds Congressman Waxman’s Efforts to Create Legal Pathway for Lower-Cost Alternatives to Biologic Drugs

09.13.2006

PCMA: Mail-Service Pharmacy Option Projected to Save Medicare, Private Health Plans at Least $85 Billion over Next Ten Years

09.07.2006

PCMA: Seniors Can Delay Entry into Medicare Part D ‘Donut Hole’ By Average of 74 Days With Increased Use of Generics, Mail-Service Pharmacies

August 2006

08.09.2006

PCMA: North Carolina Rejects One-Size-Fits-All PBM Disclosure Bill

08.08.2006

PCMA: Rhetoric Aside, Drugstores Flourish under Medicare Part D

July 2006

07.24.2006

PCMA Applauds Senator Hillary Clinton’s Call for a National, Uniform Electronic-Prescribing Standard

07.20.2006

PCMA President Mark Merritt Testifies before Senate Aging Committee,

07.20.2006

PCMA Endorses Institute of Medicine’s Call for National Electronic Prescribing by 2010

07.18.2006

PCMA: New Study Finds Berry-Jones ‘Medicare FAST Act’ Would Cost Medicare $55 Billion Over Ten Years

07.11.2006

New York, Rhode Island, & Delaware All Reject PBM Fiduciary-Disclosure Proposals

June 2006

06.28.2006

PCMA: PBM Model is Proven Avenue to Lower Prescription Drug Costs, Improved Safety & Quality for Consumers & Payors

06.23.2006

PCMA: US Senate Recognizes Value of Expanding Mail-Service Pharmacy Option

06.22.2006

Pharmacists Being Paid Promptly by Medicare Drug Plans

06.16.2006

PCMA: Cost of Drugstore Lobby’s Agenda Tops $10 Billion

06.15.2006

PCMA: Demographics, Increasing Numbers of Drugstores Fueling Demand for Pharmacists

06.14.2006

PCMA President Mark Merritt Testifies before House Ways and Means Committee on Medicare Drug Benefit

06.14.2006

PCMA: Mail-Service Pharmacies Save More than Retail Drugstores

06.14.2006

PCMA President Mark Merritt Testifies Before House Energy & Commerce Committee, Reiterates Industry Pledge to Pay Medicare Pharmacy Claims within 30 Days

06.06.2006

New Study Finds Legislation Restricting Mail-Service Pharmacy Option Could Increase Costs by as much as $123 Million Annually For Pennsylvania Consumers and Employers

06.05.2006

PCMA: US Supreme Court Leaves Door Open to Near-Term Review Of Maine, DC PBM Fiduciary-Disclosure Laws

May 2006

05.24.2006

PCMA: Medicare Finds Nearly All Drug Plans Paying Pharmacies Every 15 Days or Less

05.22.2006

PCMA: New Study Finds Drugstore Lobby’s Agenda Would Increase Medicare Costs by At Least $9 Billion

05.16.2006

PCMA: New Dartmouth Atlas Hospital Research Underscores Need To Promote Value-based Purchasing in Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

05.15.2006

Drugstore Lobby Attacks Medicare Drug Benefit on Final Day of Enrollment

05.12.2006

PCMA Statement on Independent Pharmacist Lobby’s Attack On the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

05.11.2006

PCMA Launches New Print Advertising Highlighting PBM Industry Pledge to Pay Medicare Pharmacy Claims within 30 Days

05.09.2006

PCMA: Consumers, Private & Public Payors All Benefit from Increased Use Of Generics, Mail-Service Pharmacies

05.05.2006

PCMA Member Companies Pledge to Pay Medicare Pharmacy Claims within 30 Days

05.02.2006

PCMA: Despite Amendments, DC’s Fiduciary-Disclosure Law Remains Unconstitutional; Likely to Raise Prescription Drug Costs

April 2006

04.18.2006

PCMA: Seniors, Medicare Program Could Save at Least $23 Billion through 2010 with New Generic Drugs

04.06.2006

PCMA Urges Collaborative Effort in Final Push to Enroll Seniors in Medicare Drug Benefit

04.03.2006

PCMA:Primary Purpose of Medicare Drug Benefit is to Lower Seniors’ Prescription Drug Costs

March 2006

03.31.2006

PCMA: Medicare Drug Plans Are CommittedTo Ensuring Medicare Beneficiaries Get the Prescription Drugs They Need

03.30.2006

PCMA: Pharmacy Management Tools Key to Promoting Quality,

03.23.2006

PCMA: Choice & Competition Driving Down Seniors’ Drug Costs;

03.23.2006

PCMA: New Study Confirms Seniors Have Widespread Access to Drugs;Ignores Clinical, Cost-Savings Value of Pharmacy Management Tools

03.16.2006

PCMA Response to the Association of Community Pharmacists Congressional Network

03.15.2006

PCMA: Medicare ‘Direct Negotiation’ Would Reduce Drug Choices for Seniors and Shift Costs to Employers

03.13.2006

PCMA Welcomes UnitedHealth Group as Newest Member

03.02.2006

PCMA: Consumers Union Highlights Value of Generic Drugs For Medicare Beneficiaries

03.01.2006

PCMA Appoints Charles Coté Director of Public Affairs

February 2006

02.22.2006

PCMA: CMS Researchers Find Deeper-than-Expected Discounts in Medicare Drug Benefit, Foresee Marked Decline in Drug-Spending Growth Rate

02.21.2006

PCMA: New Medicare Drug-Pricing Study Relies on Selective Use of Data, Ignores Significant Savings Available to Seniors in Medicare Drug Benefit

02.15.2006

PCMA Supports Stabenow-Lott Effort to Expand Consumers’ Access to Generic Prescription Drugs

02.10.2006

PCMA: New Poll Finds Mail-Order Pharmacy Option Makes Many Seniors ‘More Likely’ To Enroll in Medicare Prescription-Drug Benefit

02.07.2006

PCMA Analysis Finds Medicare Prescription Drug Discounts ‘Real & Holding Steady’ in First 30 Days

02.01.2006

Pharmaceutical Care Management Association: President Bush Offers ‘Compelling’ Health Care Agenda

January 2006

01.10.2006

PBMs’ Efforts to Promote Generic Drugs, Mail-Service Pharmacies Pay Off in Historic Slowdown in Prescription-Drug Spending Growth

01.05.2006

PCMA: Maryland Lags Nation in Use of Mail-Service Pharmacies, State’s Consumers & Employers Paying Higher Drug Costs As Result

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