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
• Analysis of 2006 National Health Expenditures - Health Affairs January 2008

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

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
  • CMS Updates Tamper Resistant FAQ’s
  • State Contacts
  • Implementation Status 4/8/2008
  • Idaho 4/8/2008
  • Indiana 4/8/2008
  • Kentucky 4/8/2008
  • Maine 4/8/2008
  • Maryland 4/8/2008
  • Massachusetts 4/8/2008
  • Nevada 4/8/2008
  • Oklahoma 4/8/2008
  • Texas 4/8/2008
  • Washington D.C. 4/8/2008

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
• OIG report on Prescription Drug Plan Reimbursement - Jan 2008
• Medicare News
• Humana bulletins
• Part D Reference Guide for Pharmacists - 12/07
• Medicare Part D Pharmacy Help Desk phone numbers (ZIP file)

Membership resources

• 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

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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