NCPDP Foundation Announces its Second 2022 Call for Grant Proposals
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees announced its second 2022 call for grant proposals that demonstrate the value of NCPDP standards in supporting patient
safety, access to care and the expanded role of pharmacists. Grant proposals must meet the grant proposal requirements and be submitted electronically by
August 18, 2022, to be considered for the current grant funding cycle.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $157,433 Grant to Xact Laboratories to Integrate Pharmacogenomic Data into PBM Systems and Help Inform Pharmacists’ Clinical Decision-Making via NCPDP Standards
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees has awarded a $157,433 grant to Xact Laboratories to integrate pharmacogenomic (PGx)
data into Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) systems and/or Pharmacy Benefit Administrator modules to share clinical alerts
with pharmacists using NCPDP Standards.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces GoodRx as its Access to Care Founders Gift Donor to Advance Research Priorities
The NCPDP Foundation is pleased to have named GoodRx as its Patient Access to Care Founders Gift Donor. Frannie McGowan, Chief Executive Officer of Scriptcycle,
LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of GoodRx), will serve as the Patient Access to Care Chair for the Foundation’s Newly Established National Advisory Council (NAC). GoodRx’s donation
of $100,000 and Frannie’s support as Chair will support future research projects to help enhance patient access to quality health care.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces Surescripts as its Role & Value of Pharmacists Founders
Gift Donor to Advance Research Priorities
The NCPDP Foundation today announced Surescripts as its Role & Value of Pharmacist Founders Gift Donor. Surescripts’ donation
of $100,000 will support future research projects over the next two years that demonstrate and measure one or more existing
or future NCPDP standards that align with the Foundation’s strategic initiative to Expand the Role and Value of the
Pharmacist. Surescripts’ Chief Marketing Officer, Melanie Marcus, will serve as the NCPDP Foundation’s National Advisory
Council (NAC) Chair for Role and Value of the Pharmacist with support from senior pharmacists and pharmacy experts at
Surescripts, NCPA and NACDS.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces FDB as its Inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor to
Advance Research Priorities
The NCPDP Foundation today announced FDB (First Databank, Inc.) as its inaugural Patient Safety Founders Gift Donor.
FDB’s donation of $100,000 will support future research projects over the next two years that demonstrate and measure one
or more existing or future NCPDP standards that align with the Foundation’s strategic initiative to enhance patient safety.
FDB President Robert C. (“Bob”) Katter will serve as the NCPDP Foundation’s National Advisory Council (NAC) Chair for
Patient Safety.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces a Call for Grant Proposals
The NCPDP Foundation is seeking to fund more research projects that demonstrate the value of NCPDP standards in supporting
patient safety, access to care, and the expanded role of pharmacists. This may be by providing up-to-date information for
improved clinical decision making at the point of care, improving the patient experience,
and/or improving workflow efficiencies to reduce provider burden.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards Grant to Point-of-Care Partners to Document
Clinical and Patient Care Value in NCPDP’s Formulary & Benefit Standard & Added Value of Real-Time Prescription Benefit Standard
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees has awarded a $77,000 grant to Point-of-Care Partners to research and document the
value and cost savings of the newly enhanced NCPDP Formulary & Benefit Standard V53, as well as V3. The Standard, which
was first developed for use in 2005, enables prescribers to view plan-specific prescription benefit information - including
medications on formulary, alternative medications, coverage limitations such as age limits or step therapy rules, and the
copay for one product option versus another - prior to prescribing a medication. Read More
NCPDP Foundation Announces Call for Proposals
The NCPDP Foundation is seeking to fund more research projects that demonstrate the value of NCPDP standards
in supporting patient safety, access to care and the expanded role of pharmacists, providing up-to[1]date information for improved clinical decision making at the point of care and improving the patient experience. The Foundation has increased both the number and the dollar amount of grants being awarded in the past couple of years.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $115,000 Grant to Point-of-Care Partners to Help Migrate NCPDP Telecommunication Standard to JSON Format
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees announced it awarded a $115,000 grant to Point-of-Care Partners to support the migration of
NCPDP’s Telecommunication Standard to a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format, enhancing its extensibility and modernizing the
real-time pharmacy claims standard. NCPDP’s Telecommunication Standard was first developed in 1988, ushering in a new and
unprecedented era of real-time transactions in the pharmacy segment of healthcare. The Telecommunication Standard provides the
standardized format to submit prescription drug claims, and includes transactions for eligibility verification, claim and service
billing, predetermination of benefits, prior authorization, and information reporting. JSON is an open standard file format, and
data interchange format, that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and
array data types.
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