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B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA Hoey is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Community Pharmacists Association. He has spent 20+ years working in and representing community pharmacies. NCPA represents the 23,000 community pharmacies and their pharmacists. In 2005, Hoey was named COO and helped lead the NCPA team that scored legislative victories requiring prompt pay of Part D claims, winning a court injunction to delay AMP that saved community pharmacies over $2 billion dollars, and NCPA membership has increased by 20 percent over the past two years. He is a licensed pharmacist in Oklahoma, Virginia, and Texas and practiced for 5 years in community and Long Term Care settings contributing to the development of expansions into durable medical equipment and home infusion. For five years, Hoey also developed and taught pharmacology courses at George Washington University and Marymount universities. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for SureScripts, Mirixa, Pharmacy e-Health Information Technology, the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board, and the Community Pharmacy Financial. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy and the Oklahoma City University business graduate school.

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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Improve Access to Prescription Drugs in Urban Areas Pharmacy access issues are a huge problem in urban areas, especially when it comes to Medicare Part D preferred pharmacy plans. The solution is an "any willing pharmacy" provision.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Big Business Lobbyists Steamroll Medicare Patients, Main St. Small Businesses This opinion piece explains why Medicare Part D's preferred pharmacy plans are a classic example of "Wall Street" flexing its muscles against "Main Street" to keep the competitive landscape rigged in their favor. The best solution is to adopt the fair-minded "any willing provider" solution that would allow independent community pharmacies to compete in these plans.

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