On Capitol Hill, Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Reps. Darrin LaHood (R-IL) and Michelle Fischbach (R-MN) are leading an effort to protect CMS funding for pharmacy residency programs. These leaders in Congress have introduced the Rebuilding America’s Health Care Schools Act of 2025 (S. 1087, H.R. 1708).

We need your help. ACCP has developed a letter that you can send automatically to your elected leaders in Washington, D.C.; hence, it should take less than 2 minutes for you to make a real impact! ACCP members have already sent almost 2500 messages to Congress, but we need full participation for maximum impact!

State-by-State Advocacy Analysis

ACCP members in North Carolina have already sent an impressive 360 messages to Capitol Hill!

Act now to ask your senators and representative to co-sponsor the Rebuilding America’s Health Care Schools Act of 2025!

Background

Since 2019, CMS has implemented changes to its auditing procedures for clinical pharmacy residency programs, but without updating its regulations or providing guidance on how residency programs can stay in compliance with these auditing procedures.

Medicare pass-through funding for postgraduate pharmacy residency programs is critical to ensuring the sustainability of the clinical pharmacy profession. However, under these burdensome Medicare auditing procedures, many pharmacy residency programs have been stripped of funding. Thanks to clinical pharmacy’s advocacy efforts, our friends in Congress recognize this problem and have introduced legislation that would prevent unnecessary funding clawbacks jeopardizing pharmacy residency training.

How You Can Help

Take action now to send messages asking your senators and representative to co-sponsor this bill and pass it into law.

Keep ACCP informed! Many ACCP members have already received responses from their members of Congress. Please send any responses you receive to ACCP’s team in Washington, D.C., at [email protected].