Past Event:

Thanks for the great turn out at the  1st Annual Tampa Health & Wellness Expo!

Thursday, October 27, 2011  11am-2pm

Location:  Downtown - Lykes Gaslight Park

Thanks to all for making our Sept event successful!  A special thank you to our guest speaker, Dr. Robert Carlson for an excellent presentation on Thyroid, Weight Loss and Hormone Repacement!

Past Event - Tuesday Sept 27, 2011!

Thyroid Conditions, Weight Loss & Hormone Replacement Therapy

Tying the three together.

Join us for this exciting event being held at the beautiful Centre Club of Tampa conveniently located in the Westshore business area.  Come early to enjoy meeting and networking with your peers, delicious appetizers and finger foods, soothing libations and a great presentation by Dr. Robert Carlson on thyroid, weight loss and hormone replacement therapy.  

 This session will address:

  •  Thyroid conditions:  How thyroid conditions affect your patients & your practice.  

  •  Transitioning a weight loss patient to bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.

 At the end of this seminar you will have an understanding of:

  •  How to treat the varied degree of thyroid issues.

  •  How to transition a weight loss patient into a BHRT patient.

 

June, 2011 

Hoye’s Pharmacy Goes to Washington!

Robert Hoye, President of Hoye’s Pharmacy Lobbies to Continue Patients’ Right to Compounded Medications

 More than 250 community pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from across the United States traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with their federal House and Senate delegations as part of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) 2011 Compounders on Capitol Hill 17th annual conference and legislative event held, June 11-14, 2011.

 Robert Hoye, our founder and president was one of the pharmacists who made the trip. “This trip gave us a chance to speak directly to members of Congress and voice concerns that directly affect our patients whose health relies upon compounded medicines,” said Hoye.  “Some of our profession’s most active pharmacists gathered in our nation’s Capitol to take the voice of compounding to the Hill.  Perhaps not in recent history have compounding pharmacists had such clear and critical issues to discuss with our legislative contacts – many of whom are newly elected.”

 Hoye’s Pharmacy is 100% dedicated to precisely compounding medications for specific patient needs based on a prescription from their physician.  In addition to talking to Congress about the importance of having access to personalized medicines, IACP members like Hoye also specifically addressed the importance of complete prescription insurance coverage for all compounded preparations.

 “Our IACP members seek a statutory change to provide coverage for compounded medicines prepared with APIs for all Medicaid and Medicare enrollees,” says,IACP Executive Vice President & CEO David Miller, RPh.  “IACP is continuing to educate patients, prescribers, pharmacists, patient advocacy groups, congressional offices, state pharmacy associations, state pharmacy boards and Medicaid divisions about the vital importance of continued access to compounded medications.  These visits to Congress came at a particularly critical time for compounding pharmacies across the country and for the patients whom they serve.  Every pharmacist, pharmacist technician and prescriber who joined us on Capitol Hill this year and those thousands of patients and prescribers who have called and written their members of Congress were vital to ensuring that our voice was heard,” says, Miller.

Key Points:

  •  Some patient needs can only be met with medicines compounded using Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (the raw, pure drug chemical).
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) excludes coverage of compounds that are not prepared using an FDA-approved drug product.  APIs are not reviewed or approved by the FDA.
  • The elderly in community and assisted living settings – who are on Medicare or Medicaid – need access and coverage for these products.

Supporting this Effort Will:

  • Assure access to medically necessary and cost-effective compounded medicines.
  • Enable state Medicaid agencies to still obtain Federal matching dollars for inclusion of API-based compounded preparations on their formularies.
  • Provide coverage and reimbursement for Medicare Part D enrollees whose compounded medicines can and should only be prepared using APIs.

 About IACP

The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) is a non-profit association founded in 1991 to protect, promote and advance the art and science of the pharmacy compounding profession. IACP represents more than 2,000 pharmacists and technicians who are committed to the safe and ethical practice of pharmacy compounding. In addition, IACP represents more than 155,000 patients, physicians, nurse practitioners and veterinarians through its allied grassroots organization, Patients & Prescribers for Customized Care (P2C2). IACP is committed to ensuring the rights of physicians to prescribe, of pharmacists to prepare, and of patients to obtain customized medications that meet their unique, individual health needs.  www.iacprx.org.