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Drug Prices
Drug companies continue to finger point
Drug companies are at it again. And their latest effort to divert the focus from the huge profits they pocket as drug prices rise is just as disingenuous as all of their previous attempts.
Quality & Patient Safety
America’s hospitals continue to share progress and identify ways of further improving care
Axios' The poor state of U.S hospital quality (December 1, 2018) gives an incomplete view on the state of quality and safety in America’s hospitals and health systems.
Site-Neutral
Opinion piece in The Hill gets it wrong on site-neutral payment
A recent opinion piece in The Hill paints an inaccurate picture of CMS’s site-neutral payment proposal, which is both bad policy and clearly undercuts Congressional intent to protect payments for hospital outpatient clinic visits and expanded services at certain off-campus hospital departments from cuts.
Drug Prices
The Only Thing Transparent about PhRMA is Their Attempt to Blame Others for Rising Drug Prices
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) released yet another “report” in an obvious attempt to divert attention away from a problem of their own making: skyrocketing drug prices.
340B Drug Pricing Program, Advocacy & Public Policy
340B program working as intended, helping vulnerable patients and communities
A recent article in the New York Times, “A Little-Known Windfall for Some Hospitals, Now Facing Big Cuts,” gives a thoroughly inaccurate and misleading view of the 340B Drug Pricing Program.