Press Release: Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE, issued the following statement on President Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2019.
AMCP CEO Blog: The FDA approved 46 novel drugs in 2017, a 21-year high. However, it could take as long as six months for some of these groundbreaking medicines to reach patients.
Press Release: The Biologics and Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium is pleased to announce that Cate Lockhart, PharmD, PhD, has been appointed BBCIC Program Director.
The undersigned organizations write to voice our strong support for the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act (S. 974/H.R. 2212) and encourage Congress to pass this important, bipartisan legislation as soon as possible.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) thanks the FDA for the opportunity to provide comments before the Opioid Policy Steering Committee. AMCP commends the FDA for establishing the OPSC and for seeking public input to help identify key areas of focus that the FDA can address.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) is writing to express concerns with specific provisions of House Bill 4472 regarding the regulation of biological products and the substitution of interchangeable biological products when dispensed by pharmacists.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) appreciates the opportunity to submit a letter of support for H.R. 2026 – The Pharmaceutical Information Exchange (PIE) Act of 2017 which will improve patient access to emerging medication therapies and devices by codifying a safe harbor for certain health care economic and scientific information communications between biopharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and population health decision makers.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) thanks the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the opportunity to provide comments in response to the proposed rule “Medicare Program; Contract Year 2019 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Cost Plan, Medicare Fee-for-Service, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs, and the PACE Program [CMS-4182-P]” published in the Federal Register on November 28, 2017.
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) is pleased to announce the election of four members to the AMCP Board of Directors for the 2018-2020 term.