Executive Only Documents

Alliance for Pharmaceutical Care

• 2008 Documents
  • What YOU Can Do to Increase Patient Access to Pharmacist
  • Collaborative Drug Therapy Management: A Coordinated Approach to Patient Care
  • Pharmacists: The Medication-Use Experts Serving You and the Community
  • Pharmacists Administer Immunizations and Provide Patient Education
  • The Pharmacist's Role in Medicare Medication Therapy Management Services
• Alliance Handouts - 2007
• 2006 Documents
  • Collaborative Drug Therapy Management
  • Pharmacists Immuniations and Provide Information
  • Pharmacists MTM Services
  • Pharmacists Patient Safety
  • Value of Pharmacists

Articles

• To take – or not to take (your medication)
• Medication Concordance (for use in state pharmacy association newsletters/journals)
• The Hidden Agenda That Compromises Your Healthcare
• The Hidden Agenda That Compromises Your Healthcare (for use in state pharmacy association newsletters/journals)

White Papers

• NCPDP:  Pharmacy:  A prescription for improving the healthcare system, October 2009

Carve Out

• Undermining Generic Drug Substitution: The Cost of Generic Carve-Out Legislation

CE Resources

• Pharmaceutical Industry Grant Websites
• Guidelines for Standards for Commercial Support
• ACPE Non-commercialism standard
• PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals
• Commercial Support for Continuing Medical Education: Status Report for Pharmacy Executives
• The ACCME Standards for Commercial Support
• PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare ProfessionalsEffective January 2009
• The Big Five: A Summary of Guidelines, Codes and Standards
• The New World of Being Relevant
  

Presentations

• PSSNY: Professional Societies: Changing the future of Pharmacy
• Student Political Advocacy Leadership
• Introduction to Medicare and Medicaid Mark Pilkington - November 2008

CMS

• CMS Non-Matched NDC list updated January 12, 2010
• CMS Regional Office Pharmacists
• CMS Releases the Final 2009 Call Letter

Health Care Reform

• NAPSA Congressional Visit Toolkit
  • Steps to a successful Congressional Visit (Word)
  • Specific - Ask - leave behind one page (PDF)
  • Specific - Ask - leave behind template (Word)
  • Key Congress Targe List (Word)
  • Grassroots HCR Messaging Guide (Word)
• APhA Data Leave Behind - July 9, 2009
• Letter to Senate Finance and Senate HeLP committee - April 28, 2009
• Integration of Pharmacists’ Clinical Services in the Patient-Centered Primary Care Medical Home - March 2009
• Pharmacy Principles of Health Care Reform - July 10, 2009
• APhA Press Conference (200 MB MOV File)
• Leadership for Medication Management
  • Legislative Principles
  • LMM Members Logos Sheet
  • LMM Policy document
  • MTM 101
• Protecting US Citizens from Inappropriate Medication Use

Limited English Proficiency (LEP)

• Pharmacy Resource Guide
• Pharmacy Law Booklet

Medicaid

• May 2009 Federal Upper Limit (FUL) Update
• 2006 Standard Prescription Benefit Card
• NPC’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Under State Medical Assistance Programs - 2007
• State Medicaid Rates - Updated September 2009
• NAMSD - 2007 State Perspectives: Medicaid Pharmacy
• NAMSD - 2007 State Perspectives Medicaid Pharmacy Policies and Practices
• GAO Reprort:  Medicaid Outpatient Prescription Drugs: Estimated 2007 Federal Upper Limits for Reimbursement Compared with Retail Pharmacy Acquisition Costs
• Tamper Resistant Prescriptions
  • Final Letter to Medicaid Directors
  • Draft Letter to Prescribers

Medicare

• Medicare Clarifies ‘Negotiated Prices’ Under Part D and Codifies our Best Available Evidence Guidance – January 12, 2009
• Final HIPAA transaction standards and ICD-10 – January 16, 2009
  • http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-740.pdf
  • http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-743.pdf
• Medicare News
• Humana bulletins
• Part D Reference Guide for Pharmacists - 12/07
• Medicare Part D Pharmacy Help Desk phone numbers (ZIP file)

Membership resources

• Reminder of the Part D Transition Policy - March 2010
• Recruiter Kit (PDF)
• Recruiter Kit (Word)
• Primer on Membership Development (PDF)
• Primer on Membership Development (Word)
• Guide for Planning (Word)
• Guide for Planning (PDF)  
• Membership Presentation (PowerPoint)

DEA

• California DEA Inventory List - 2008

NPI

• NCPDP/WEDI NPI White Papers – last updated 7/07
• NPI March 1st Milestone

E-Health

• DEA E-Rx response February 1, 2008
• Electronic Prescription Processing and Patient Confidentiality

CBO Reports

• Prescription Drug Pricing in the Private Sector - January 2007

FDA

• Toll-Free Number for Reporting Adverse Events on Labeling for Human Drug Products - Final Rule - 10/28/08
• HHS HFA Approved Inhalers - 9/1/2008
• Toll-Free Number for Reporting Adverse Events on Labeling for Human Drug Products (PDF file)

GAO Reports

• State and Local Governments:  Growing Fiscal Challenges Will Emerge during the Next 10 years – January 2008

Internet pharmacies

• Internet pharmacy patient practitioner relationship laws and rules

Journal Articles

• Action Plan for Implementation of the JCPP Future Vision of Pharmacy Practice
• Project Destiny - Beyond medication therapy management

State Fact Sheets

Technicians

• State Technician Requirements
• Technician Training Map
• Technician Certification Map
• Technician: Pharmacists Ratios Map

Pharmacy Workforce

• PMP Workforce Data – Feb 2007

Other Issues

• Independently Owned Pharmacies in Rural America

Patient Safety

• PQC Users Get New Legal Protection for Required Quality Assurance Program - August 6, 2009
• APMS Overview - August 6, 2009
• HRQ'S 2007 State Snapshots Provide Broader Portraits of State-by-State Health Care Performance
  An annual analysis to help health leaders identify areas of health care delivery that need quality improvement now includes important information such as each State's rate of obesity, health insurance coverage, mental illness and the number of specialist doctors. Those and other measures--called "State contextual factors"--are part of the 2007 State Snapshots released today by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). More
• Pharmacy Quality Alliance
• NASPA - Center for Quality Initiatives

National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC-MERP)
NASPA a member of the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC-MERP).  The mission of the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) is to maximize the safe use of medications and to increase awareness of medication errors through open communication, increased reporting and promotion of medication error prevention strategies.

www.talkaboutrx.org
www.bemedwise.org
www.mustforseniors.org

Resources

• 2009 State Legislative Issues
• Boehringer Ingelheim Independent Pharmacy Satisfaction Report
  
• 2008 Antisubstitution Documents
• NABP Model Act Updated August 2008
• Comparison of State Immunization Laws
• 2007 NACDS Industry Profile
• 2006 NACDS Industry Profile
• West Virginia Immunization Legislation
• State Immunization Laws - Comparison
• FDA Letter Antiepilepsy Substitution 2008
• Florida Veto SB1116 May 2007
• 2008 Antisubstitution Documents
  • Generic Substitution of Epilepsy Drugs--General One-pager
  •  Coalition Issue Brief --Restricting Generic Substitution of Drugs to Treat Epilepsy
  •  Generic Substitution of Epilepsy Drugs--One-pager (FINAL)
  •  Generic-Therapeutic Interchange Chart 2007
  • AMA --Letter Report on Generic Substiution of NTI drugs 2007
• Substitution Laws
  •  NTI
  • Generic-Therapeutic_Interchange_Chart_2007
• OIG Report: Review of the Relationship Between Medicare Part D Payments
• Educational Grant Resources

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