Drug Prices
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Colin Milligan, (202) 638-5491
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies today held a hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services鈥 funding request for fiscal year 2019.
Reducing regulations and expanding care models that ensure coordination and reward performance are two ways to address health care prices, AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton said today during a Kaiser Family Foundation panel discussion focused on the issue.
Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), chairman of the Health Subcommittee on Ways and Means, today stressed the need for Congress to reduce certain regulations on providers that 鈥渉ave no relationship to patient health.鈥
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma today discussed a number of efforts underway at the agency, including many to reduce regulatory burdens on providers.
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The timing of the AHA Annual Membership Meeting presents a 鈥渞eal opportunity to talk with your members of Congress about what you are doing back home,鈥 specifically how hospitals are improving value and affordability, coping with escalating drug prices and working at the front鈥
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins today authored an OpEd in The Hill discussing the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs and what they mean for patients and our health care system.
The number of U.S. retail opioid prescriptions fell by 10.2% in 2017, including a 16.1% decline in high-dose prescriptions, according to a report released today by the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.
Also in this week鈥檚 roundup: Maine hospital named for Barbara Bush recognizes her passing and University of Virginia Medical Center uses app to communicate with non-English speaking patients.
Coastal Meds LLC, which compounds drugs as an outsourcing facility, has voluntarily recalled all of its products marketed as sterile due to visible particles in some of the drug vials for injection.