Sep 2, 2022 | Drug Costs, Featured
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. March-in rights have been invoked again, this time with the support of Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Angus King (I-Maine), and Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas). March-in rights, a provision of the Bayh-Dole regulations,...
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Aug 22, 2022 | Featured, Letters Submitted
Patients Rising Now sent a letter to the New York State Department of Financial Services about Pharmacy Benefit Managers. PBMs possess a considerable amount of leverage in the health space and use that leverage to steer patients to in-house or otherwise...
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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 Update: On August 16, 2022, the department of Health and Human Services approved a 12-month extension of postpartum Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage in Hawaii, Maryland, and Ohio, which will cover up to 34,000...
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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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