Will Proposed CMS Rule Threaten Access for Seniors?
Medicare has money problems; that’s no secret. But health experts worry that a newly proposed rule to reduce costs by ending Part D’s access guarantee for specific medications could shake Medicare’s fundamental purpose: to keep America’s seniors healthy.
New IfPA Paper: Why Doctors Need to Know When Pharmacists Substitute Biological Medicines
Today the Institute for Patient Access released a new policy brief entitled “WHY DOCTORS NEED TO KNOW WHEN PHARMACISTS SUBSTITUTE BIOLOGICAL MEDICINES.”
The Looming Mental Health Pandemic
Cancer Patients Want More Information on Rx Switches
In some cases, patients switch between using similar medications without thinking twice. Aspirin and ibuprofen, for example, are both over-the-counter medications for treating minor pain. But not every swap is as easy to understand.
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease By 2025
The latest update to the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease sets an ambitious goal: to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s by 2025. The plan was first developed following the passage of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act in 2011. That federal law called for a coordinated effort to accelerate research on Alzheimer’s disease and related […]
