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...
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Feb 7, 2023 | Comment Letters
Patients Rising Now joined 70 other patients groups in a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the expansion of the Low Income Subsidy (LIS). As part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the LIS was expanded to include beneficiaries who...
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Mar 19, 2020 | Copay Assistance, Featured, Federal Issues, News
Patients are getting some big-name support on Capitol Hill in the fight to block health care regulations that would increase patient out-of-pocket insurance costs in 2021. Seventy-two members of the House of Representatives are calling on U.S. Department of Health and...
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Sep 11, 2019 | Health Insurance, News
Two patients with the same symptoms receive the same treatment at the same hospital.Same bill, right?Patient Patti Joiner learned the hard way that insurance isn’t health care when she visited a Texas emergency room along with her mother experiencing the same flu...
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Aug 20, 2019 | Federal Issues, News, Out of Pocket Costs
If you’re feeling the pinch of skyrocketing out-of-pocket health care costs, you aren’t alone. Across the country, millions of patients with “good” health insurance are being hit with higher out-of-pocket costs every time they go to access their health care. By one...
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