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Legal Considerations in Specialty Pharmacy - 2024 Updates

ACPE Activity Number: 0204-0000-24-143-H03-P
Release Date:  June 11, 2024
Expiration Date: June 11, 2027
Activity Type: Application-based 
CE Credits:  2.0 contact hours (0.20 CEUs)
Activity Fee: Free

This activity was presented live at our 2024 Pharmacy Futures meeting. If you claimed the live credit, you should not claim credit for the home study.

Activity Overview 

This activity will prepare pharmacy leaders to gain an understanding of the pharmacy benefits landscape and interpret laws and regulations that impact health-system pharmacies. 

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The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education with Commendation.

This activity is intended to meet the professional development needs of Certified Pharmacy Executive Leaders.  

After completing this activity, the learner should be able to…

  • Discuss the current pharmacy benefits landscape in relation to the drug supply channel and the role of health-system pharmacies.
  • Identify payer network admission criteria for various pharmacy benefit management (PBM) network requirements.
  • Develop strategies to navigate nontransparent, unclear, changing, and onerous legal requirements.
  • Interpret laws and regulations that impact health-system pharmacies, including rules regarding network access, benefits design, fair audits, and reimbursement rates. 

  • Introduction and Announcements 

  • Presentation  

  • Questions, Answers, and Discussion 

Jesse C. Dresser, JD 
Partner 
Frier Levitt, New Jersey  

JoAnn Stubbings, BSPharm, MHCA 
Clinical Associate Professor Emerita 
University of Illinois Chicago/University of Illinois 
Hospital and Health Sciences System, Illinois  

In accordance with our accreditor’s Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ASHP requires that all individuals in control of content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if they have had a financial relationship with an ineligible company in any dollar amount in the past 24 months and the educational content that the individual controls is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. 

An ineligible company is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The presence or absence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience. 

  • No one in control of the content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship (RFR) with an ineligible company. 

This activity consists of recordings of faculty slides presentations, active learning activities, discussion, and handouts. Participants must participate in the activity in its entirety to claim continuing pharmacy education credit online at ASHP Learning Center. Follow the prompts online to complete the evaluation, claim credit and view the statement of credit immediately after completing the activity. 

Per ACPE requirements, CPE credit must be claimed within 60 days of being earned. Once you have processed and claimed your CE credit, we encourage you to check your NABP eProfile account to verify your credits were transferred successfully before the ACPE 60-day deadline. It is an electronic direct-report process so your credits should appear in your account within a few minutes. After the 60 day deadline, ASHP will no longer be able to report your credit(s) for this activity.