Report Highlights
Did you know that NCPA represents 18,900 pharmacies that employ more than 235,000 individuals nationwide?
Source: NCPA
Dive into RXinsider’s latest conference overview report on NCPA:
- View a timeline highlighting key events in NCPA’s history
- Explore the 62 Pharmacy500 exhibitors
- Read NCPA’s organization year in review for 2025
History & Timeline
Did you know that NCPA used to have a different name? Explore how NCPA has evolved over the years…
NCPA 2025 Organization Year in Review
- NCPA joined a class action suit against GoodRx, CVS Caremark Corp., Express Scripts, Inc., MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc., and Navitus Health Solutions, LLC.
- NCPA Innovation Center and independent pharmacy partners formed the Independent Community Pharmacy Consortium for Government Engagement to bolster public health emergency preparedness and response.
- NCPA released a new analysis titled Unpacking the Financial Impacts of Medicare Drug Price Negotiation, finding that the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation program threatens the financial stability of small and independent American pharmacies.
- ASCP and NCPA announced joint recommendations to manufacturers to effectuate Medicare’s Maximum Fair Price (MFP).
- NCPA and HealthShifts announced a partnership to launch a national job board to expand career and staffing support for the community pharmacy sector.
- NCPA, along with APhA, AACP, ASCP, ASHP, CPESN USA, HOPA, NASPA, NABP, NPhA, PTCB, and SIDP, jointly published guiding principles for state policy on pharmacy personnel-administered vaccines.
- NCPA released the 2025 NCPA Digest, an annual review of independent community pharmacy.
- The NCPA Foundation launched the Rural Pharmacy Ownership Accelerator, a virtual program to support future pharmacy owners in rural America.
- Kristen Riddle was installed as the 2025-2026 president of NCPA by its House of Delegates at the 2025 NCPA Annual Convention and Expo.
- NCPA and the University of Southern California (USC) launched an interactive map identifying pharmacy shortages across the country.
- NCPA and the Arkansas Pharmacists Association filed a legal brief defending a law that bars companies from simultaneously operating a pharmacy benefit manager and a pharmacy in the state.
- Bristol Myers Squibb and NCPA piloted heart health care initiatives in pharmacies across rural Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri.
- NCPA, PTCB, and PCCA launched Compounding PATH for Technicians, a compounding program designed to elevate compounding pharmacy care.
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The spirit of the NCPA Annual Convention and Expo Report 2026 is to educate Pharmacy500 professionals, pharmacy leadership, and other stakeholders on key trends within the supply chain as it relates to NCPA.
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