Recent Grants Making a Difference! We are pleased to share the findings of two grants have
now been published!
Read about Phase 1 of the Foundation’s Grant to STChealth for the Pilot Launch of NCPDP’s National Facilitator Model to
Strengthen Pandemic and Epidemic Preparedness & Response and Support Public Health Surveillance.
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Learn about the NCPDP Foundation’s Grant to the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health for RxFill:
An Innovative Approach to Support Medication Adherence.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $79,000 Grant to Digital Therapeutics Alliance to Address Key
Barrier for Patient Access to Clinically Validated Digital Therapeutic Products
Digital Therapeutics Alliance will research current obstacles or barriers to health plan coverage of DTx therapies and
develop standardized pharmacy and medical benefit workflows to show how DTx products can be integrated into benefit designs.
The grant supports the NCPDP Foundation’s strategic initiative to Expand Patient Access to Care in alignment with NCPDP’s
strategic goal to explore how standards can support a pharmacist’s role in digital therapeutics. Findings from the research
project will also include recommendations for enhancements to existing NCPDP standards or a new NCPDP standard to support
DTx products.
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NCPDP Foundation Announces its Call for Grant Proposals, Due July 31, 2023
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees announced its 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 July 31, 2023, to be considered for
the current grant funding cycle. Areas of interest include: Value of Specialty Medication Enrollment Standard;
Pharmacy Services Billing Transaction; Other NCPDP Standards That Support Value-based Arrangements, Precision
Medicine, Social Determinants of Health, Digital Therapeutics or the NCPDP National Facilitator Model.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $102,300 Research Grant to University of Minnesota College of
Pharmacy to Evaluate the NCPDP/HL7 Specialty Medication Enrollment Standard
The NCPDP Foundation Board of Trustees announced it has awarded a $102,300 research grant to the University of Minnesota
College of Pharmacy to evaluate the quality of data obtained from EHRs using the NCPDP/HL7 Specialty Medication Enrollment
Standard. The Standard provides for the exchange of patient demographic data, as well as coverage, prescription, and
clinical data for pharmacy dispensing of specialty medications. It also facilitates enrollment of patients in programs
offered by third parties such as hub vendors and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The research project aims to evaluate the
frequency at which information received by specialty pharmacy from EHRs is populated; evaluate the quality of information
received by specialty pharmacy from EHRs using a comprehensive evidence-based data quality framework; and evaluate the
clinical usefulness of information received by specialty pharmacy.
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Foundation Funded Pilot Project Announced: NCPDP Announces Pilot Launch of its National Facilitator Model to Strengthen Pandemic and
Epidemic Preparedness & Response and Support Public Health Surveillance
Funding for the pilot project is provided by an NCPDP Foundation grant of $150,000 awarded to STChealth. NCPDP announced the
pilot launch of its National Facilitator Model which can be used to provide real-time information on prescription, testing,
immunization, and related data to pharmacies, prescribers and government agencies to aid in pandemic and epidemic response,
proactive intervention and public health surveillance.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards $295,000 in Grants to Enhance Patient Safety, Expand Patient Access to Care, & Expand the Role & Value of Pharmacists
Three grants were awarded in the NCPDP Foundation’s first grant cycle of 2022. Research projects will explore the value and
untapped potential of the RxFill or RxChange transactions in the NCPDP SCRIPT Standard. The grants support the NCPDP
Foundation’s strategic initiatives to Enhance Patient Safety, Expand Patient Access to Care, and Expand the Role and Value
of the Pharmacist.
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NCPDP Foundation Awards Grant to University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy to Identify Barriers to Using Indication/Diagnosis Fields in NCPDP Standards
Research Project Will Explore Barriers to the Use of Clinical Indication or Diagnosis – Underutilized Fields in NCPDP’s SCRIPT and Telecommunication Standards – Which Can Aid Pharmacists in DUR, Reduce Prescribing Errors, Improve Medication Counseling, and Speed Patient Access to Medications and Adherence.
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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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