Community/Retail

Ron Lanton, of True North Political Solutions, interviews Jennifer Mallon, vice president and general counsel of the National Community Pharmacists Association, on the health policy check-up segment.

Medicare can achieve the dual goals of better health outcomes for the program's beneficiaries and at lower overall costs if the medication therapy management services of community pharmacists are better utilized, the National Community Pharmacists Association said today in comments submitted to a congressional committee.

Continuing its focus on America's growing long term care pharmacy sector as detailed by a new Avalere Health study, "Long-Term Care Pharmacy: The Evolving Marketplace and Emerging Policy Issues," the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition today spotlighted the major differences between LTC pharmacies and more commonly known retail pharmacies.