Resources

Resources for Advocacy Issues & News

Find Your Federal Representatives | congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Look up your U.S. House & Senate members along with their contact information

Locate Your Legislator  | actioncenter.pharmacist.com
This page on the APhA website allows you to look up both state and federal legislators

Pharmacists United for Truth & Transparency | www.truthrx.org
PUTT is a non-profit advocacy organization founded by independent pharmacists and pharmacy owners devoted to exposing the truth about the anti-competitive tactics of PBMs. American Pharmacies is a proud member and partner of PUTT and works closely with the organization on advocacy issues.

 

Our Independent Voice ourindependentvoice.com AmerisourceBergen, American Pharmacies’ wholesale partner, provides extensive news on federal legislation and background information on advocacy issues, as well as resources and an advocacy toolkit to support grassroots efforts.

  National Community Pharmacists Assn. | www.ncpanet.org
NCPA is a major national advocate for community pharmacists on public policy issues that affect their patients and pharmacies. NCPA advocates on is sues ranging from PBM abuses to pharmacists’ ability to practice at their full scope.

American Pharmacists Association actioncenter.pharmacist.com
APhA represents all pharmacy practitioners nationwide and has extensive advocacy resources, especially on scope-of practice issues. The APhA Action Center offers tools for creating customized communications to your legislators

46 Brooklyn | 46brooklyn.com
is an Ohio non-profit that works to improve accessibility and usability of U.S. drug pricing data. 46brooklyn takes the myriad data sources scattered across the web and stitches them together into data visualizations that can be used by  pharmacists to better understand the drug supply chain. It’s a great tool for comparing Medicaid/Medicare pricing across states.

Drug Channels drugchannels.net
Some of the best industry analysis and insights available on PBMs, pharma- cies, networks and the complexities of drug economics. Adam’ Fein’s remarks often surprise and occasionally irritate independent owners, but he’s reliably factual.

PBM Watch | pbmwatch.com
Having trouble talking to your patients about PBM issues? Send them here –– this valuable website is oriented toward consumers, not pharmacists, and provides extensive information on how PBM activities harm patients and raise costs.

PBM Accountability Project | pbmaccountability.org
This broad-based coalition representing healthcare, labor, business, pharmacy, and consumer/patient advocacy groups offers policy recommendations for political stakeholders as well as great infographics and collateral you can use to help educate legislators.