March 21, 2019 The Council’s Katie Oberkircher spoke with Eric Pachman and Antonio Ciaccia, co-founders of 46Brooklyn—a prescription drug research firm—to demonstrate how to use the tools they’ve created to
March 21, 2019 Our Government Affairs team is monitoring bills and action items that would affect the insurance industry. Here’s what we’re focusing on as of late: The “Short on
March 15, 2019 The Council’s expert legal team at Steptoe & Johnson created a chart to show the broad landscape of drug pricing legislation in Congress. The chart is updated
January 25, 2019 The State of Montana’s health plan was hemorrhaging money with a little over 60% of the costs coming from hospital care and pharmacy benefits. Enter Marilynn Bartlett,
January 25, 2019 We attended the Council for Affordable Health Coverage’s premier policy event earlier this month to hear from representatives from all corners of the healthcare industry. HHS Secretary
December 5, 2018 Tech companies are banging down the doors of the healthcare industry, infiltrating different pieces of a complicated system in an effort to inject innovation into care delivery
December 5, 2018 Legislative and regulatory efforts to reduce drug costs is a top priority for both Democrats and Republicans in the next Congress, and it’s one of the few
November 8, 2018 The CMS proposed that drug manufacturers be required to disclose the list prices of drugs covered by Medicare or Medicaid in TV ads. In particular, manufacturers would
November 8, 2018 CMS released an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking—with the spring of 2019 targeted for a proposed rule—describing changes to the way Medicare pays for some drugs administered
October 19, 2018 According to Mark Galvin, CEO of MyMedicalShopper, if patients shop ahead for a service or treatment, they usually lower their costs by 50 to 90 percent. Healthcare
