CAR-T Coverage Raises Hopes, Questions for Cancer Patients
Medicare beneficiaries nationwide could soon have access to innovative CAR-T cancer therapies – under certain stipulations.
Access to Pain Care Poses Policy Challenges
“As we deal with the opioid crisis, we must keep in mind those Americans who are hurting.”
New Evidence Validates Infant Feeding Connector Concerns
A new study suggests that an increasingly widespread hospital tubing system could be inaccurate—a dangerous finding for infants.
An Answer to Wasteful Health Care Spending
The Alliance for Patient Access has an answer to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)’s request for ideas on reducing health care spending: Hold the physician-patient relationship above wasted expense.
Rare Disease Day: Why All Forms of Care Matter
Each year, on the last day of February, Rare Disease Day is celebrated across the globe to raise awareness for those who suffer from complex illnesses. This day is meant to highlight diseases that people continue to fight every day and to promote advancements that are being made to find cures.
New “Fast Facts” Explores Feeding Challenges for Premature Infants
Prematurity causes tiny babies to spend days or weeks, sometimes months, in neonatal intensive care. But a new “Fast Facts” highlights one challenge that often keeps them there when they are otherwise ready to go home: feeding.
“I’m Calling about Paul”
Paul has been coming to our dermatology office for years. He has painful psoriasis; after years of trying different medications he finally found one that controls his symptoms. Then Paul changed insurance companies in the middle of his treatment.
Study: Non-Medical Switching Reduces Quality of Life for Patients
Health plans’ attempts to cut costs can wreak havoc on patients’ lives, new research makes clear.
Movement Disorders Patients Need Medicare’s 6 Protected Classes Intact
Add movement disorders patients to the long list of people whose health could suffer under the Trump administration’s proposal to loosen Medicare protections on six classes of medications for high-risk diseases. In current practice, Medicare prescription drug plans must cover all (or “substantially all”) drugs in six classes. These include drugs for life-threatening conditions such […]
Policy Event Spotlights Migraine & Disability Issues
It might mean swapping out fluorescent light bulbs, implementing a flexible work schedule, or providing a dark room where staff can recover from migraine attacks.
