From the Desk of the CEO

Washington, DC. – September 16, 2025 – Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the appointment of Hillary F. Blackburn, PharmD, MBA, of Franklin, Tennessee, as a voting member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

Washington, D.C. – August 19, 2025 – The Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) today announced the release of the 2025 Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process (PPCP), an update to the 2014 PPCP that is intended to reflect pharmacists’ contemporary practice and evolving trends in the health care system.

Washington, DC. (Aug. 6, 2025) – The American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), and the Tennessee Pharmacists Association (TPA) yesterday filed a joint amicus brief in federal court in support of Tennessee’s law to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.

Washington, DC, July 31, 2025 — The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) is deeply concerned with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Secretariat’s decision to label iaison organizations as “special interest groups” and therefore, “biased” in decision making.

WASHINGTON, DC, July 25, 2025 – Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) this week introduced S.2426, the Ensuring Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act (ECAPS), bipartisan legislation that would ensure Medicare beneficiaries can access select testing and treatment services from pharmacists.