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Are We Making Progress With Coverage for Behavioral Health?
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. Perhaps a cliched statement, but the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant psychological impact on a large portion of the global population and has renewed stakeholder interest in providing access to behavioral health services for...
The Multi-Billion Dollar Rx Middlemen: PBMs Explained
Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have become embedded in the ecosystem of drug pricing– but these middlemen are one of the reasons patients see high prices at the pharmacy counter. This episode is a crash course in everything drug pricing with a focus on PBMs, from...
Patients Rising Now Sends Letter to House and Senate Leadership Encouraging Support for Home Healthcare Bill
Patients Rising Now and 12 other organizations sent a letter to the House of Representatives and Senate leadership encouraging support for the Preserving Access to Home Health Act of 2022 (H.R. 8581/S. 4605). There is currently a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
What Does Pharmaceutical Innovation Mean and How Does It Affect Me?
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. Pharmaceutical research, manufacturing, and marketing are long, nuanced, and expensive processes. While innovation in this space has a direct impact on both disease, prevention and disease outcomes, patients may often feel distant...
Patients Rising Now Signs onto CMS Letter Supporting Access to Chronic Kidney Disease Care
Patients Rising Now signed onto a letter to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure calling for CMS to improve access to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Treatment for Medicare beneficiaries. CKD and other kidney-related disorders are very common in both Americans aged...
Chronic Disease Patient Organization Applauds House Passage of Prior Authorization Reform
WASHINGTON — Patients Rising Now Co-Founder Terry Wilcox today released the following statement in response to the U.S. House passage of Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act (H.R.3173): “The prior authorization process has become incredibly burdensome to...
PRN Signs onto Biomarker Bill Letter
Patients Rising Now signed onto a letter urging Governor Newsom of California to sign SB 912 into law as soon as possible. SB 912 would require private and public health plans to recognize and cover biomarker tests. The practice of biomarker testing is where a...
Patients Rising Delegate Program: Raising the Patient Voice in Healthcare
At Patients Rising, we are focused on the need to develop an all-inclusive, transparent healthcare system that provides patients access to affordable care. This is possible only when all stakeholders are at the table and have the ability to participate in the...
Using March-in Rights as a Strategy for Reducing Drug Prices
By Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. March-in rights have been invoked again, this time with the support of Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Angus King (I-Maine), and Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas). March-in rights, a provision of the Bayh-Dole regulations,...
PRN Sends Letter about PBM Patient-Steering
Patients Rising Now sent a letter to the New York State Department of Financial Services about Pharmacy Benefit Managers. PBMs possess a considerable amount of leverage in the health space and use that leverage to steer patients to in-house or otherwise...
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