WASHINGTON, DC— Vertically merged pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) use their highly concentrated market power to dominate, deceive, and maybe even defraud, American Pharmacists Association (APhA) CEO and Executive Vice President Scott Knoer told Federal Trade Commission (FTC) leaders at a roundtable today.

WASHINGTON, DC – A group of nine pharmacy associations filed a friend of the court (amicus curiae) brief in the Eighth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals today defending North Dakota’s right to regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

ALEXANDRIA, Va.  – Hundreds of organizations representing community pharmacies, grocery store pharmacies, specialty pharmacies, chain pharmacies, patient groups, buying groups, health systems, wholesalers

WASHINGTON, DC—The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) today joined the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) as an equal partner in a federal lawsuit challenging a confusing scheme of retroactive fees imposed on pharmacies and, indirectly, their patients.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) today praised the introduction of legislation that would give tens of millions of Medicare patients in medically underserved communities access to critically needed primary health care services delivered by pharmacists.