Nov 8, 2023 | Featured, Letters Supported, Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Patients Rising, along with 50 other patient groups, sent a letter to Senate Leadership urging support for the health care provided through private employers to 179 million Americans by enacting strong pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reforms this year. It is imperative...
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Feb 13, 2023 | Featured, Letters Supported
Patients Rising Now joined 58 other organizations in a letter sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) on reinstating a Federal Rule prohibiting step therapy in Medicare Advantage plans. In 2012, CMS instituted a prohibition on step therapy in Medicare...
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Sep 21, 2022 | Letters Supported
Patients Rising Now and 12 other organizations sent a letter to the House of Representatives and Senate leadership encouraging support for the Preserving Access to Home Health Act of 2022 (H.R. 8581/S. 4605). There is currently a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
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Sep 16, 2022 | Featured, Letters Supported
Patients Rising Now signed onto a letter to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure calling for CMS to improve access to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Treatment for Medicare beneficiaries. CKD and other kidney-related disorders are very common in both Americans aged...
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Sep 12, 2022 | Featured, Letters Supported
Patients Rising Now signed onto a letter urging Governor Newsom of California to sign SB 912 into law as soon as possible. SB 912 would require private and public health plans to recognize and cover biomarker tests. The practice of biomarker testing is where a...
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May 26, 2022 | Letters Supported
Patients Rising Now signed onto a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) with 105 other associations. This was a letter we signed onto in addition to the comments we submitted on behalf of our own organization. The PBM...
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