NCPA Reacts to Medicare $1M Fine for Aetna

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (April 7, 2015)—The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA, issued the following statement today regarding the $1 million civil monetary penalty that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) imposed on Aetna regarding the significant disruption to patients and community pharmacists that occurred in early 2015 as a result of the company’s inaccurate representation of “in-network” pharmacies in some plans: