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Rural Hospital Closures Further Complicates Healthcare Access in Mississippi

Jan 23, 2023 | Access, Featured

By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. Hospital closures, service cuts, and lack of medical care in some of the poorest neighborhoods in the state—that is the status of hospitals and medical care in Mississippi, where 38 rural hospitals (54%) are expected to shutter their...

Contract Changes Leave DoD TRICARE Beneficiaries Without Pharmacy Access

Jan 3, 2023 | Featured, Pharmacy Benefit Managers

By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. Cigna’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), Express Scripts, has introduced network changes that have reduced the number of retail pharmacies within the Department of Defense (DoD)’s TRICARE benefits program by 15,000. Many of these are...

Most Popular Podcast Episodes in 2022 From Patients Rising

Jan 3, 2023 | Featured, Podcast

Patients Rising Podcast covers a wide range of healthcare topics and invites experts and stakeholders to share their opinions, thoughts, and experiences with our audience. Here are some of our most popular episodes from 2022: Middlemen and Healthcare Costs: Middlemen...

Patients Rising Now Signs onto Letter to President on Alzheimer’s Scans

Dec 16, 2022 | Featured, Medicare

Patients Rising Now joined 50 other organizations in a letter to President Biden requesting that he direct HHS Secretary Becerra to reopen the National Coverage Determination (NCD) on PET scans for patients participating in Alzheimer’s treatments trials. CMS’ current...

PRN and 17 Patient Groups Send Letter to Hill on Home Health Cuts

Dec 15, 2022 | Featured, Medicare

Patients Rising Now joined 17 other patient groups in sending a letter to Congressional Leadership on the impending cuts to Medicare home health services. The letter we sent was an updated version of a letter from September urging passage of the Preserving Access to...

Patients Rising Now Sends Letter to Hill on Preventing Medicare Physician Cuts

Dec 12, 2022 | Medicare

Patients Rising Now sent a letter to Congressional leadership requesting that the Medicare Providers Act (H.R.8800) be included in the end-of-year spending package. The Medicare Physician Schedule is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s guideline for how...

How Can CMMI Follow-up on the Executive Order on Drug Pricing?

Nov 21, 2022 | Drug Costs

By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. President Biden signed an Executive Order on October 14, 2022, that tasks the HHS Secretary to engage the Innovation Center (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, CMMI) with testing healthcare payment and delivery models to...

PRN and 27 Patient Groups Send Letter to Hill on Generic Drugs

Nov 20, 2022 | Featured, Letters Submitted

Patients Rising Now, along with 27 other patient groups, sent a letter to Congressional leadership as well as Senate HELP committee and House E&C leadership urging support for generic drug policy riders. The 117th Congress will soon enter the final session period...

Patients Rising Now Guide for Commenting on ICER’s Draft Evidence Report on Treatments for Relapsing Forms of Multiple Sclerosis

Nov 2, 2022 | ICER

On October 17, 2022, ICER released its draft evidence report, “Oral and Monoclonal Antibody Treatments for Relapsing Forms of Multiple Sclerosis.” This document provides a framework for considering what aspects of ICER’s review are important to people with multiple...

Patients Rising Now Signs onto Letter of Support for Home Infusion

Oct 31, 2022 | Featured, Medicare, Uncategorized

Patients Rising Now signed onto a letter of support for the bipartisan and bicameral Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act (S.2652/H.R.5067). For decades, home infusion therapy services have been a lifeline for millions of Americans by delivering lifesaving...