Group Hopes Lawmakers Will Define 'LTC Pharmacy' By End Of Next Congress

A long term care pharmacy coalition is calling on Congress to legislatively define the term “LTC pharmacy” in an effort to harmonize what it says are conflicting CMS, FDA and Environmental Protection Agency regulations. The group hopes lawmakers will act by the end of the next Congress and says language in the CMS Medicare Part D Manual could be a starting point for a statutory definition. “Federal regulation today contains a widely divergent set of actual and proposed definitions of...