Now that the Virginia House and Senate approved the Save Local Pharmacies Act with overwhelming bipartisan support, the bill is with Governor Youngkin (R-VA). We need your help making sure he signs the bill into law!

This critical legislation establishes a single, state-contracted Pharmacy Benefits Manager for Medicaid, eliminating the multiple PBM middlemen that continue to drive up drug costs and threaten the survival of our local pharmacies.  It streamlines and enhances transparency, paving the way for more efficient, cost-effective healthcare, ensuring that every community across Virginia maintains access to the personalized care only a local pharmacy can provide.

Virginia has 19 rural counties with no pharmacies and many pharmacy deserts, and similarly positioned states like Ohio and Kentucky have both successfully adopted this model. Help us advocate to protect essential pharmacy services! Please enter your contact information and the letter-writing system will populate a letter to Governor Youngkin (R-VA).

Our profession, our industry, and our patients are depending on you. If you have any questions about this communication, please contact Heidi Ecker, Vice President of Government, Political, and Digital Communications via email at Hecker@nacds.org