AMP

AMP
On 12/19/2007, Royce C. Lamberth, United States District Judge, signed Court Orders to postpone AMP (Average Manufacture Price) and to postpone the posting of AMP on a public website. At this time, if there is no appeal to the courts by CMS, which will cause further delays, this will give us some time to try to get something passed that makes sense so pharmacies can keep their doors open to Medicaid patients. Thanks to NCPA and NACDS for their strategic lawsuit and thanks to all those individuals who put forth so much effort trying to convince Congress of CMS’s ill conceived AMP proposal. NCPA’s Chris Parinello explained we have about 2 months, hopefully longer, for the lawsuit to hold and hopefully we are able to get a further delay at least until June about the time the physicians Medicaid bill gets revisited after their delay, and pass legislation to fix AMP…much more on this issue later.