It is critical that you contact Medicare and Congress by a March 7 deadline in support of a proposed rule for Part D that includes several positive elements for community pharmacists and their patients, including an any willing provider provision. Under it, a PBM cannot freeze a pharmacy out of its “preferred” network if the pharmacy is willing to accept the same contract. Go to www.ncpanet.org/medicare and click on “For Community Pharmacists” for instructions on how you can make your voice heard with Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Fight for your right to compete. You can call your members of Congress at 202-224-3121. Do it now.
