NACDS RxIMPACT is calling for your help to advance Iowa pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform to help prevent harm to patients, communities, and pharmacies! Although we expect the Iowa Senate to work a few days past Tuesday’s official April 16th adjournment date, the number of days we have left to advance a key PBM reform bill are quickly fading away!
We’re SO close! Only YOU can help us bring PBM reform bill HF 2401 to enactment! The Iowa House approved the bill. The Senate Commerce Committee gave its approval leaving one last step in the state legislature: Senate approval. Join us NOW in telling your Senator to support HF 2401 and call on leadership to finish the job with a full Senate vote. Whether you have recently engaged in similar recent campaigns or not, please join our effort TODAY!
As you well know, PBMs have complicated and exploited the system for their own profit and at the expense of patients, communities, employers, taxpayers, and pharmacies. These tactics drive up prescription drug prices that force pharmacies to provide medications below their cost to acquire and dispense them.
This important legislation would protect patient access through approaches that include: (1) implementing a pass-through pricing model to increase transparency and to help keep premiums low; (2) ensuring pharmacists receive payment for services performed within their scope of practice; and (3) strengthening pharmacies’ ability to appeal for reimbursement when they were paid below their product cost.
PBM reforms must be enacted into law as part of a total approach to turning the tide on PBM abusive practices that force patients and others to pay more for their medicines, that limit patients’ access to their pharmacist, that restrict patients’ access to the medicines right for them, and that jeopardize the pharmacies on which patients rely.
Help NACDS RxIMPACT push for PBM reform by sending a letter to your State Senator in Iowa! Simply type in your contact information and the system will generate a message to your State Senator.
If you have any questions or would like any assistance, please contact Sandra Guckian via telephone at 703-774-4801 or email or Heidi Ecker via telephone at 703-837-4121 or email.
We’re SO close! Only YOU can help us bring PBM reform bill HF 2401 to enactment! The Iowa House approved the bill. The Senate Commerce Committee gave its approval leaving one last step in the state legislature: Senate approval. Join us NOW in telling your Senator to support HF 2401 and call on leadership to finish the job with a full Senate vote. Whether you have recently engaged in similar recent campaigns or not, please join our effort TODAY!
As you well know, PBMs have complicated and exploited the system for their own profit and at the expense of patients, communities, employers, taxpayers, and pharmacies. These tactics drive up prescription drug prices that force pharmacies to provide medications below their cost to acquire and dispense them.
This important legislation would protect patient access through approaches that include: (1) implementing a pass-through pricing model to increase transparency and to help keep premiums low; (2) ensuring pharmacists receive payment for services performed within their scope of practice; and (3) strengthening pharmacies’ ability to appeal for reimbursement when they were paid below their product cost.
PBM reforms must be enacted into law as part of a total approach to turning the tide on PBM abusive practices that force patients and others to pay more for their medicines, that limit patients’ access to their pharmacist, that restrict patients’ access to the medicines right for them, and that jeopardize the pharmacies on which patients rely.
Help NACDS RxIMPACT push for PBM reform by sending a letter to your State Senator in Iowa! Simply type in your contact information and the system will generate a message to your State Senator.
If you have any questions or would like any assistance, please contact Sandra Guckian via telephone at 703-774-4801 or email or Heidi Ecker via telephone at 703-837-4121 or email.
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