AMCP announced today that Phil Bongiorno has joined the organization as vice president, policy & government relations. In this role, he will oversee AMCP’s many advocacy efforts to advance managed care pharmacy principles and practices through health care legislation and regulation at both the federal and state levels.
October 2019 News & Views: Read articles about AMCP President-elect and board of director candidates, AMCP Partnership Forum on Digital Therapeutics, Legislative Days takes managed care pharmacy’s message to Capitol Hill, and more.
HHS OIG Issues Proposed Rule to Remove Regulatory Barriers to Care Coordination, Value-based Care; Congress Continues Work on Drug Pricing Bills in House and Senate;
AMCP last week gathered a group of diverse health care stakeholders to discuss the challenges and opportunities of ensuring patient access to a category of emerging therapies known as “digital therapeutics,” which have the potential to treat a wide range of diseases and medical conditions.
Partnership Forum: Participants discussed how digital therapeutics with web and designed based applications are emerging as a means to treat conditions by engaging people to improve health and wellness.
AMCP CEO Blog: AMCP’s roughly 8,000 members work diligently every day to improve patient care through the optimized use of medicines. As an organization, we also take a leading role in developing improvements to the overall delivery of care, which is no easy task given the size and complexity of our health care system.