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Patients Rising Now Signs onto Letter to CMS on Low Income Subsidies
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...
Patients Rising Now Weighs in on House E&C QALY Hearing
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...
Patients Rising Now Signs on to Letter to HHS on NBPP
Patients Rising Now joined 71 other organizations in signing on to a letter sent to HHS on the Notice of Benefits and Payment Parameters (NBPP) proposed rule for 2024. The proposed rule would increase access to health services under their current plans, improve the...
Patients Rising Now Sends Comments to CMS on EHBs
Patients Rising Now sent comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for a comment period on Essential Health Benefits (EHBs). As part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there were 10 EHBs listed that insurance companies were required to cover....
Rural Hospital Closures Further Complicates Healthcare Access in Mississippi
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...
Contract Changes Leave DoD TRICARE Beneficiaries Without Pharmacy Access
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...
Most Popular Podcast Episodes in 2022 From Patients Rising
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...
Patients Rising Now Signs onto Letter to President on Alzheimer’s Scans
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...
PRN and 17 Patient Groups Send Letter to Hill on Home Health Cuts
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...
Patients Rising Now Sends Letter to Hill on Preventing Medicare Physician Cuts
Patients Rising Now sent a letter to Congressional leadership requesting that the Medicare Providers Act (H.R.8800) be included in the end-of-year spending package. The Medicare Physician Schedule is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid's guideline for how...
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