NCPDP − Raising the Standards

About NCPDP − Raising the Standards

www.ncpdp.org

Publisher

NCPDP

Category

health & fitness · science · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Dec 2021

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 43 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Putting Members First: The Future of Pharmacy with Oscar Health

   Pooja Babbrah interviews Mara Mitchel, SVP of Pharmacy at Oscar Health, about health plans driving pharmacy innovation for a connected, member-first experience.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   How Humana Is Using Standards to Close Gaps in Care

   In this episode, Pooja Babbrah sits down with Morgan Bojorquez, Associate Vice President of Business Development within Humana’s Pharmacy Division, to explore how the organization is approaching innovation in pharmacy. Morgan shares how Humana identified opportunities to use existing standards in new ways, including its New Rx Insights initiative, which uses the prescribing workflow to help close gaps in care. He discusses what they have learned from implementing the program, the role of phar...

3. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Prior Authorization: Are We Actually Making It Better?

   Prior authorization continues to create challenges for physicians, staff and patients, despite increased attention, regulation and new technology. In this episode of NCPDPunscripted, Heather McComas, Director II, Policy Development, Administrative Simplification Initiatives, and Tyler Scheid, Associate Director of Policy Development, from the American Medical Association, discuss the current state of prior authorization, what has changed and what still needs to happen to make the process work...

Inside a recent episode

Creating Consistency in Pharmacy Care

Published 13 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Great. So let's dive into some of those obstacles. Tell us a little bit about kind of what's what's stopping a nationwide kind of uptake of these services? Yeah, I think probably two core things. There's really a lot of core things, but there absolutely needs to be greater billing pathways, greater opportunities that are more standardized billing pathways, and pharmacists can count on that they're going to be paid consistently by health plans to perform the services that they're scoped for. Some of it, too, I mean, there's 50 states with 50 different rules around what the pharmacist is scoped for. […]

Who has been a guest on NCPDP − Raising the Standards

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• Mara Mitchel
• Kim Boyd
• Seth Joseph
• Amy Gleason
• Alex Azar

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 12 / 100

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25

Social presence

0

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0

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