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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (July 20, 2017) In a letter this week, the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) encouraged the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health to consider three bills that will achieve their stated goals of improving the care Medicare delivers to vulnerable patients, streamlining the ability of providers to deliver that care, and ensuring Medicare's long-term viability.
"Not only will these bills help increase Medicare beneficiaries' access to health care and help decrease Medicare costs, each bill has had strong bipartisan support in the House," said NCPA CEO B. Douglas Hoey, Pharmacist, MBA in the letter.
NCPA touted three bills to the subcommittee's chair and ranking member, Reps. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) and Gene Green (D-Texas):
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