AMCP Press & News

Press Release: Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE has been appointed to the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) 2018-2019 Board of Directors.

Press Release: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a much anticipated proposed rule titled “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.”

Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s (AMCP) has released a consensus document on value-based contracting that includes a key stakeholder definition of VBC along with strategies to implement the innovative payment model.

Press Release: A recent Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy forum of stakeholders representing payers, patients, government, and pharmaceutical companies found broad consensus on critical issues.

Press Release: More than 2,500 managed care pharmacy professionals from across the country gathered in the heart of Texas this week for dozens of educational sessions and discussions on how to boost outcomes and control costs for the roughly 270 million Americans covered by a managed pharmacy benefit.

Press Releases: Four leading health care experts are generally optimistic that the U.S. will successfully address one of the fiercest challenges facing the health care system: paying for often spectacular, but high-cost gene and other curative therapies.

Press Release: The perception of what is "valuable" in any particular therapy can vary widely between providers, patients and payers, according to panelists at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation's 7th Annual Research Symposium.

Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation is delighted to announce that eight student pharmacists from across the country recently completed summer internship programs organized by the Foundation and supported by Pfizer, Inc.

Press Release: More than 2,200 managed care professionals will convene Oct. 16-19 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel and Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas, to take on two of the hottest issues facing health care

Press Release: Lowering the out-of-pocket costs of blood glucose testing strips can improve diabetes patients’ persistence with home monitoring, according to an article in the August 2017 issue of the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy (JMCP).

Conclusions reached in a recent New York Times article on outcomes-based contracting are premature, if not inaccurate, stated Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE, adding, “It’s still the early innings for outcomes-based, or value-based, contracting for prescription drugs, and therefore, too soon to dismiss.”

Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) commends the House for its passage yesterday of H.R. 2430, the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017. H.R. 2430 reauthorizes FDA’s critical user fee programs.