Letters, Statements & Analysis
AMCP communicates the importance of managed care pharmacy by collaborating with members to provide comments, analysis, and testimony to Congress and federal and state agencies on the impact of proposed regulations and laws on managed care pharmacy and patients.
We are writing to express our support for the Biosimilars Competition Act of 2018 (H.R. 6478). The undersigned stakeholders share your commitment to promoting a biosimilars market that will help reduce prescription drug costs for patients, payers, and taxpayers. We commend you for introducing this important legislation and look forward to working with you to enact it into law.
AMCP was pleased that the bill, the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act (S. 974), bipartisan legislation designed to increase patient access to safe and affordable generic and biosimilar medicines and marketplace competition, continued to garner bipartisan support when it was voted out of the Judiciary Committee.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) appreciates the opportunity to provide comments in response to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) request for information on the HHS Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs [RIN 0991-ZA49] (Blueprint).
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) thanks the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the opportunity to provide comments in response to “Drug and Device Manufacturer Communications With Payors, Formulary Committees, and Similar Entities—Questions and Answers [FDA-2016-D-1307]” as published in the Federal Register on June 13, 2018.
The Alliance wants to ensure an FDA that is sized and modernized to meet its mandate in the 21st century. The FDA oversees products that represent 20% of consumer spending in the US and affect every American multiple times each day. Its responsibilities are global in scope and form the backbone of the world’s economy.
On behalf of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP), I wanted to take this opportunity to express our strong support for the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act (S. 974), bipartisan legislation to increase competition and patient access to safe and affordable generic and biosimilar medicines.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) strongly supports the committee’s drive to combat the opioid epidemic. While searching for solutions to a widespread problem which has impacted the lives of many across the nation, there has been a consensus that no “one size fits all” solution exists and therefore AMCP believes that a holistic, comprehensive, and multi-stakeholder approach among health care providers and patients is necessary to truly address the opioid epidemic.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) writes in strong opposition to House Bill 4146. House bill 4146 “prohibits a health care plan from modifying an enrollee’s drug coverage in a plan year by (A) increasing out-of-pocket costs for a covered drug; (B) moving a prescription to a more restrictive tier; or (C) removing a prescription drug from a formulary.”
AMCP Submits Letter to Illinois Senate Committee Opposing House Bill 4146 Which Prohibits Formulary Changes During a Plan Year.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) opposes provisions in Senate Bill 332 that require a medication synchronization program to apply a daily pro-rated cost-sharing rate to prescriptions as determined by the prescriber and pharmacist which would abrogate existing health insurance plan contract terms with the parties.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) opposes provisions in Assembly Bill 4306 that require a medication synchronization program to apply a daily pro-rated cost-sharing rate to prescriptions as determined by the health care practitioner and pharmacist which would abrogate existing health plan contract terms with the parties.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) is writing in strong support of H.R. 3545 – the “Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act”. As you know, H.R. 3545 has bipartisan support and was introduced by Reps. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Earl Blumenauer (R-OR), Jim Renacci (R-OH), Buddy Carter (R-GA) and Pat Meehan (R-PA).
