Benefits of NCPA Membership

member benefits

NCPA members are some of the most successful pharmacy owners in the country. If you already own a pharmacy and are looking for ways to improve your bottom line or if you are interested in owning your own pharmacy, join NCPA and experience everything that we have to offer.

"What I love about NCPA (and going to NCPA events) is that you learn how to be successful in the pharmacy as a business. You sense that you are around people who are successful in pharmacy. You get all that energy. Being in NCPA has taught me how to be politically active for my business."
— Barry Feely, RPh, Owner of multiple Medicine Man Pharmacy
locations in Hayden, Idaho, and surrounding area

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Return on Investment. NCPA can help you succeed and strengthen your business. The value of an NCPA membership far exceeds the cost. What have we done for you lately? We think it is pretty clear, and now we're asking you to be there for us. JOIN NCPA NOW to ensure we can continue offering the education and resources your business needs to succeed and remain in the health care spotlight. NCPA membership is very affordable—join us for about half a penny per prescription and let us help you thrive! Click here to learn more.

NCPA benefits and programs include:

  • MastercardNEW BENEFIT:
    NCPA Business Mastercard®
    This exclusive credit card offers unlimited 2.25% cash back on all of your purchases when you set up autopay. Additionally, if you spend $25,000 on eligible purchases during your first three months, you’ll get a $450 sign-on bonus! Learn more or apply now at NCPACard.com.
     
  • Advasur
    advasurAdvasur360 removes the direct burden of track and trace compliance for Advasur’s dispenser clients and offers improved business processes, providing the dispenser community with comprehensive data collection and product traceability services. Special pricing for NCPA members.
     
  • Continuing education
    Members receive access to live, online, and print continuing education on a variety of subjects.
     
  • Dispose My Meds™
    This program, through the NCPA Foundation, offers a discount on the purchase of a takeaway box, as well as information and resources for pharmacies to create a disposal program.
     
  • Exclusive regulatory and legislative advocacy and updates
    NCPA fights for the nation’s more than 19,000 independent pharmacies and their patients because pharmacists play a vital role in health care.
     
  • Member communications
    NCPA keeps members informed with news, trends, and regulatory, legislative and legal issues affecting pharmacy.
     
  • Member discounts on publications
    Staff training publications, niche service training manuals, and more are available through the NCPA Bookstore.
     
  • NCPA Digest sponsored by Cardinal Health
    Access to this annual summary of selected financial and demographic information helps members evaluate their business and illustrates the value independent pharmacists provide to patients and the health care marketplace.
     
  • NCPA events and programming
    Members enjoy significant discounts on registration for all our meetings, from the annual convention to workshops offered throughout the year.
     
  • NCPA professional services
    Members can call NCPA toll-free to get personalized answers to business and operations questions.
     
  • Opportunity Toolkit:
    NCPA has developed this members-only toolkit to help members effectively market services to their pharmacy’s patients. From a customizable letter to prescribers to sample signage designs to template print, radio, and social media ads, the toolkit is chock full of easy-to-implement resources to grow the business. 
     
  • POCTTrack:
    Among the many preferred products offered by PRS Pharmacy Services, POCTTrack helps in offering CLIA-waived point-of-care testing and gives guidance, policies, procedures, and forms to set up pharmacies. Further, the program provides the questions to ask the agency responsible for clinical laboratories in each state and the state-specific rules for each state board of pharmacy.  
     
  • Prescryptive:
    With an AI-powered pricing model for cash prescriptions, Prescryptive helps deliver pharmacies a better bottom line. Prescryptive utilizes artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to look for opportunities based on your individual pharmacy needs, including location, competitive information, the drug itself, and more.  
     
  • Simplify My Meds®
    This free turnkey adherence program provides NCPA members with tools, training, and marketing support to implement a medication synchronization program.