This year’s ACCP Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 18-21 will offer an advocacy session providing updates on health care legislation and payment policy important to pharmacists across all practice areas and settings, allowing them to stay current, compliant, and informed. The presentation will delve into federal and state regulatory changes and emerging trends, including updates on payment and policy reform initiatives, requirements for collaborative practice agreements or protocols by state, compensation for comprehensive clinical pharmacy services, and how recent legislation may affect clinical practice. For those interested in advocacy, it will provide resources to inform future advocacy efforts or discussions with stakeholders within and outside the pharmacy profession to advance clinical pharmacy practice and compensation for pharmacists’ services.

The session will begin with Kathy Pham, Pharm.D., BCPPS, providing policy insights from her role as ACCP’s senior director of policy and professional affairs, evaluating the current landscape and legislation on pharmacist payment and policy reform initiatives. Then Ryan Wargo, Pharm.D., BCACP, from Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon, will discuss the current state of pharmacist collaborative practice agreements and the impact of legislation on advancing clinical pharmacy practice. The session will conclude with Jonathan Hughes, Pharm.D., BCACP, from Ascension Saint Thomas in Tennessee, who will analyze current compensation for comprehensive clinical pharmacy services and determine the impact of new legislation pertaining to payment for these services.

The advocacy session will take place on Monday, October 20, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in Northstar Ballroom A and provide 1.5 hours of law CPE credit.