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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...