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The important role of pharmacists in providing front-line patient care has become even more pressing during the current pandemic. AMCP CEO Susan Cantrell, RPh, CAE writes about pharmacists' expanding role in the time of COVID-19.

These are trying times, especially for health care practitioners. Together, as managed care pharmacy professionals, we face challenges to patient care. AMCP CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE addresses these unique challenges in her latest blog post.

AMCP CEO Blog: AMCP has been working hard for several years to help members be ready when drugs are approved or off-label indications emerge. The first prong of our effort was to update the popular AMCP Format for Formulary Submissions.

AMCP CEO Blog: As a new decade dawns, AMCP is preparing for the twists and turns of an uncertain first year. With health care a top issue in this year’s presidential campaigns, drug pricing a favorite target, and biosimilar use poised to expand, seeing where this year will lead requires much more than “2020” vision.

Digital therapeutics: What are they, and where do they fit into pharmacy and medical benefits? Learn more in this blog post from AMCP CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE.

AMCP CEO Blog: With PA so often misunderstood, perhaps we need to do a better job of explaining this tool to the general public. For example, we might provide an example of how PAs are applied to opioids as additional safeguards to ensure their appropriate use. Or how a PA might be applied to botulinum toxin to ensure the prescription is for medical, rather than cosmetic, purposes.

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.

AMCP CEO Blog: We live in an interconnected world where the marketplace for all things is global. But we must also make sure the global system works for the benefit of the patients we serve. That includes taking steps to ensure the long-term stability and integrity of our critical pharmaceutical supply chain.

AMCP CEO Blog: PA is a crucial but often-misunderstood utilization management tool in the pharmacy benefit space.

AMCP CEO Address: AMCP CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE addressed the AMCP 2019 Annual Meeting on March 26, laying out how AMCP is prepared to meet the challenges of today’s complex health care system. The following is a lightly edited transcript of that address.