Mar 23 2010
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy congratulates Congress for passing
historic, comprehensive health care reform legislation. The Academy is
pleased that the final product will reflect a commitment to making
quality health care available to millions of currently uninsured
Americans. AMCP has long advocated for reforms that ensure safe, high
quality, accessible and affordable health care services for all
Americans.
“The Academy is particularly pleased at the recognition in the
legislation of the role that pharmacists can and must play in managing
prescriptions drug therapy and in ensuring improved outcomes for
patients while avoiding intensive, costly health care services, such as
surgery and hospitalization”
“The Academy is particularly pleased at the recognition in the
legislation of the role that pharmacists can and must play in managing
prescriptions drug therapy and in ensuring improved outcomes for
patients while avoiding intensive, costly health care services, such as
surgery and hospitalization,” says Judith Cahill, Executive Director of
the Academy.
Among the pharmacy-specific provisions, the Academy applauds the
creation of a public-private infrastructure to support research on
comparative clinical and cost effectiveness research, the creation of a
regulatory pathway for expedited approval of follow-on biologics, and
the establishment of two types of federal grants that would promote
medication therapy management (MTM) services.
Source The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy