PFOA had a lot happening in April and we continue to make progress in May. The Board has voted on and passed our 2013 budget. We continue to add new members to our roles and members to our programs.

We have had a west coast sales representative accept our employment offer. Mark Holden will start next week and will be training over the next four weeks.

We retained the services of Rod McCann as a consultant to focus on getting PFOA to optimize its opportunities with our new PBM, ChoiceRX. At a recent staff meeting, Rod began educating our staff on PBM. Later this month we will run two town hall meetings on May 22nd for our members on ChoiceRX.

Our AAP members started to enjoy record end of year generic loyalty rebates from the API warehouse and those that chose to be dual members of both groups received the first installment of their patronage dividend for 2012. AAP also held their annual meeting in San Antonio. It was a very well attended meeting with many positive comments. Our staff was there to network with AAP staff, meet with our attending members and learn the offerings of the AAP program.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Nashville, Tennessee

DoubleTree Hotel Downtown Nashville

314 4th Ave. N.

$250 Expense Credit for Members Attending the National Meeting

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As reported by Alaric DeArment on March 28, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a new rule that it said was necessary to protect the security of health information stored online.

As required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which was part of the 2009 economic stimulus bill, HHS said it would change patient privacy rules in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) in order to provide for privacy and security protection for information stored in electronic health records.

Every time you swipe a customer's credit card in your store, you as the merchant are charged a fee by the credit card companies and banks – and those fees add up quickly, costing you thousands of dollars a year.

NCPA is one of several plaintiffs in a class action suit against Visa and MasterCard to bring changes to their unfair and exorbitant swipe fees and surcharge rules.

A proposed settlement was announced late last year In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation (MDL 1720), which would offer class members money damages worth approximately three months of interchange fees. The settlement would also make limited changes to certain Visa and MasterCard surcharging rules. The judge overseeing the suit must now decide whether to grant final approval to the settlement.