Aug 5, 2022 | Featured, Health Policy
WASHINGTON — Patients Rising NOW today released “What You Don’t Know About the Reconciliation Bill,” the organization’s fact-check of the drug pricing provisions within the Senate’s reconciliation bill, or the 725-page Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The list...
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Aug 4, 2022 | Featured, Letters Submitted
Patients Rising Now sent a letter to the Office of the Inspector General department that oversees the Department of Health and Human Services. As part of our commitment to patient access, affordability, and safety, we are members of the Patients for Safer Nuclear...
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Aug 4, 2022 | Featured, Medicaid
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, PhD Advocates and some lawmakers are urging the nation’s largest payer for maternity care to extend postpartum care to a year from the current two-month period. Pregnancy-related death can happen up to a year following childbirth and...
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Jul 27, 2022 | Featured, Medicare
WASHINGTON — Patients Rising Now Executive Director Terry Wilcox today released the following statement regarding provisions for Medicare negotiation in the reconciliation package: “Like other primary caregivers, I’ve spent much of my time at the pharmacy counter....
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Jul 25, 2022 | Featured, Health Policy
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, PhD Injectable drugs, which are usually manufactured as single-dose vials, are administered by health care providers based on a person’s body weight. Variability in body weight means there is medication left over in the vial, which has to...
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Jul 20, 2022 | Featured, Letters Submitted
We sent a letter to members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees regarding FY23 funding. The House bills that fund HHS and FDA both established double digit percentage increases in funding; we thanked House lawmakers for their continued support of these...
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