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Wilcox: MedPAC’S Part B Recommendations Threaten Patient Access to Care

Apr 14, 2023 | Access, Federal Issues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2023 Contact: Sarah Shelson sshelson@riesterpublicaffairs.com WASHINGTON — Patients Rising Now CEO and Co-founder Terry Wilcox today released the following statement regarding MedPAC’s recommendation to modify reimbursements for...

Out-of-the-Box Thinking Needed to Boost Healthcare Professional Workforce, Improve Access

Mar 24, 2023 | Access

By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. Here’s a grim statistic from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC): by 2034, there will be an estimated shortage of 17,800-48,000 primary care and 21,000-77,100 specialty physicians in the U.S. Strategies to remove...

Patient Group Exposes Vision Benefit Manager Abuses in New Campaign

Mar 23, 2023 | Health Insurance

Two vision insurers cover two-thirds of Americans, suppress competition and prevent lower prices WASHINGTON – Chronic disease patient advocacy organization Patients Rising Now today announced a new campaign exposing abuses in the vision insurance market, including...

Wilcox: A Bipartisan Victory for Patients to Ban Discriminatory Metrics Congressional Subcommittee Agrees: Patient Lives are WORTH IT

Mar 8, 2023 | Press Releases, QALY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 8, 2023 Contact: Summer Johnson sjohnsonn@riesterpublicaffairs.com WASHINGTON, DC – Patients Rising NOW Co-founder and CEO Terry Wilcox issued the following statement today regarding the passage of H.R. 485, the Protecting Health...

Patients Rising Now Submits Comments on Patient Rights to United States Patent and Trademark Office

Mar 8, 2023 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 6, 2023 Contact: Sarah Shelson sshelson@riesterpublicaffairs.com PATIENTS RISING NOW SUBMITS COMMENTS ON PATENT RIGHTS TO UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE WASHINGTON — Patients Rising Now CEO Terry Wilcox recently submitted public...

New Harris Poll: FDA Should Regulate All Medical Device Service and Repair

Mar 6, 2023 | Press Releases

Patients Rising Now: Poll Shows FDA Should Regulate Third-Party Medical Device Service and Exclude Medical Devices from Right to Repair Legislation 77 percent of consumers say the FDA should regulate original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service and repair companies...

Patient Impact Report: Discrimination Faced by Patients with Rare Diseases

Feb 25, 2023 | Access

Patient Access to Rare Disease Treatments (PDF Version of the Report) Rare diseases are not as rare as the name implies. Over 25 million Americans live with rare diseases. Many rare diseases are also considered chronic diseases, since they require routine medical...

Are States Prepared for the End of COVID-19 Emergency Declarations?

Feb 21, 2023 | COVID-19, State Issues

Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. The COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (PHE) declared by the Trump Administration in early 2020 are now set to expire on May 11, 2023 instead of March 1 and April 11, respectively. The White House said in the...

Patients Rising Now Sends Comments to FDA on OTC Naloxone

Feb 14, 2023 | FDA, Featured

Patients Rising Now submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on making naloxone available as an over-the-counter treatment. Naloxone is a treatment which prevents death in the event of an opioid overdose and is currently only available through...

Patients Rising Now Signs onto Letter to CMS on Step Therapy

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...