Missouri Pharmacy Podcast

Jason Purcell is a pharmacist and HR professional who has worked in hiring and staffing at Mercy Hospital in Lebanon, MO. He talks about how pharmacists and staff can find purpose and meaning in life, especially through work. He also touches on how challenging it is to staff a rural pharmacy and how compliance impacts that hardship in staffing. Finally, he touches on the importance of the 340B program to fund critical access hospitals in rural Missouri. https://www.morx.com/

MPA in-house lobbyist, Henrio Thelemaque, takes 6 minutes to tell you why your involvement as a pharmacist in the Missouri Pharmacy Political Action Committee (PPAC) is so important for 2024 and beyond for the profession of pharmacy. Donate online here: http://bit.ly/Missouri-PPAC Find out more or join our mission: https://www.morx.com/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thempa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missouripharmacy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mopharmacy

In the latest episode of the Missouri Pharmacy Podcast, MPA CEO Ron Fitzwater, and Scott Pace, a pharmacist and lawyer who helped write and pass Arkansas' PBM regulation law, discuss how pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are impacting pharmacies across the country. Find out more at the links: https://www.morx.com/ @missouripharmacy Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thempa Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missouripharmacy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mopharmacy

Every year for the past 5+ years, the  @MissouriPharmacy  Association has hosted an event for pharmacy leaders to coalesce at the lake in Camdenton, Missouri to network and grow as leaders. The MPA brings in leadership consultant, John Riordan, who has worked with some of the most important leaders in Washington DC. He helps facilitate an event that has gotten rave reviews over the years while providing pharmacy leaders real value in their pursuit of effective leadership in their pharmacies and communities. Consider joining us! https://www.morx.com/ Follow us on social media: https://www.twitter.com/thempa https://www.facebook.com/missouripharmacy https://www.instagram.com/mopharmacy

Ron Fitzwater explains how a local independent pharmacy shut down is a great example of the type of unfair playing field that pharmacies are up against with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). The anti-competitive nature of their massive influence over the insurance space and patient care has forced hundreds of pharmacies out of business or into sales in the last several years.

In the latest Missouri Pharmacy Podcast, Ron Fitzwater outlines how the MPA is currently working to expand the practice of pharmacy in the state of Missouri. From legislative efforts to patient care opportunities to fighting PBMs, the MPA is hard at work on behalf of some of our most trusted healthcare professionals in Missouri, pharmacists. https://www.morx.com/

The Missouri Pharmacy Association's in-house lobbyist, Henrio Thelemaque, discusses what he sees coming down the road in the 2024 legislative session. During an election year in 2024, a big one because of all the names on the ballot, he tries to explain what dynamics will be at play for legislation that impacts pharmacy and the state of Missouri.

Did the Missouri legislature get anything done in 2023? What were the dynamics? Who are the players and what happened? MPA in-house lobbyist, Henrio Thelemaque, gives his wrap-up on how the session will impact pharmacy going forward in Missouri. There was good and bad. For more information or to get involved in the MPA, visit www.morx.com.