Feb 22, 2020 | Federal Issues, News
Patients struggling with the high cost of health insurance can expect even higher out-of-pocket costs in 2021, under an insurance regulation proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Last month, the obscure federal agency under the Department of...
Feb 21, 2020 | Federal Issues, News
What You Need to Know About the Opioid Workforce Act (H.R. 3414/S. 2892) A bipartisan bill was introduced in the US Congress in 2019 to help fund additional residency positions in hospitals and health systems in an effort to help stem the opioid crisis that the...
Feb 7, 2020 | Actions, Federal Issues
Support the Personalized Care Act of 2020 Americans are Speaking Up and Want Greater Access to Care through Affordability, Transparency, and Choice. Please write to your representatives and president to ask for their support of HR 5596 which strengthens and expands...
Jan 31, 2020 | Federal Issues, News
President Trump is moving at breakneck speed to deliver real relief to patients struggling with outrageous medical bills. Over the past three years, the Trump administration has proposed a long list of historic healthcare initiatives that directly challenge the...
Jan 27, 2020 | Federal Issues, Issues, News
An effort by the Trump administration to help patients battling sky-high surprise medical bills is earning high praise from patients, consumer advocates and even former health care advisers to President Obama. Under a Department of Health and Human Services rule...
Dec 6, 2019 | Federal Issues, Letters Submitted
Patients Rising NOW has joined a coalition of patients, doctors, policy experts, and providers in opposing HR 3708. HR 3708, the Primary Care Enhancement Act of 2019, would impose price caps and detrimental exclusions on the most successful model extant in healthcare...
