Feb 10, 2023 | Featured, QALY, Uncategorized
Patients Rising Now sent a letter to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding the release of its draft Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP). The draft SEP outlined several new policy changes to enhance protections for employees from vulnerable...
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Feb 2, 2023 | Featured Action, QALY
The House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Health Subcommittee held a hearing on banning the use of the Quality-Adjusted Life Year (QALY) in Federal health programs. The Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act (H.R.485) was recently reintroduced by Chairwoman Rodgers...
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Oct 4, 2022 | Access, Featured
Patients Rising Now signs on with 70 other patient groups to send another letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) praising the Department fortheir Proposed Rule regarding nondiscrimination in healthcare. We sent our own letter outside of this one...
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Oct 3, 2022 | Comment Letters, Featured, Uncategorized
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) held a comment period on a Proposed Rule they plan to implement. The Rule reverses a previous 2020 rule that narrowed the scope of protections against discrimination in healthcare. Patients Rising Now (PRN) submitted...
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Aug 6, 2019 | ICER, News, QALY
The midterms are over and it’s time to get back to discussing issues that impact Americans on a daily basis. Things like health care and, specifically how to reduce costs. President Trump has made lowering the cost of prescription drugs one of his priorities. It seems...
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