Creative Strategies to fight the PBMs | Anthony Reznik w/ IPA

Director of Government and Public Affairs for Independent Pharmacy Alliance (IPA) Anthony Reznik joins us on the PBM Reform Podcast Series to discuss strategies Pharmacy can implement to fight the PBMs while we wait for legal reform at the state & federal levels.  Independent Pharmacy Alliance, est. 1988, is a trade group and retail pharmacy buying cooperative representing over 3,100 independent pharmacies in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.  IPA represents its members for the purpose of combined purchasing to lower a pharmacy’s “cost of goods and services” as well as to provide them with comprehensive legislative advocacy, third party resolution support and free continuing education. Additionally, IPA offers a Generic Source Program and competitive co-op contract pricing on such items as vitamins/nutritional supplements, diabetic supplies, greeting cards, managed care network, credit card processing, pharmaceutical returns, prescription vials and many other products/services. Philly Inquirer: When insurers drop medications for cheap alternatives, the effects can be devastating for some patients https://www.inquirer.com/philly/health/health-costs/step-therapy-formulary-changes-affect-patients-20180718.html-2 NYT: How Insurers are shifting high costs to the sick https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/upshot/how-insurers-are-finding-ways-to-shift-costs-to-the-sick.html   Anthony Reznik Director of Government and Public Affairs Independent Pharmacy Alliance 3 Cedar Brook Drive Cranbury, NJ  08512 800-575-2667 Toll Free Web:  www.ipa-rx.org Twitter: @IPAPharmacies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices