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America has both an obesity and health care cost problem.
Their coexistence is not coincidental.   New data application from a recent study further illuminates the relationship between the two major issues, revealing if every American living with obesity hypothetically reduced their body mass index (BMI) by 5%, the cumulative effect would save $68....
Feb 21, 2025
Chronic Disease Complicates Postpartum Health for Black Mothers
Becoming a new mother is an extraordinary experience but it is also a time when women face extreme challenges, especially when it comes to their health. For Black women, the period of time following childbirth can be even more complicated due to a higher prevalence of chronic health conditions like...
Aug 28, 2024
Health Plans Predict: Implementing Upper Payment Limits May Alter Formularies And Benefit Design But Won’t Reduce Patient Costs
Overview of PDABs and UPLs State policymakers are touting Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDABs) and upper payment limits (UPLs) as ways to control state spending and lower patient costs on prescription drugs in recent years. As of February 2024, eight states (Colorado, Maine, Maryland,...
Mar 22, 2024
PFCD and Caregiver Action Network Host Critical Discussion on Current State of Alzheimer’s Care
  The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease and Caregiver Action Network recently held an important discussion on Capitol Hill, coinciding with Alzheimer’s Awareness Month and Family Caregivers Month, focused on how CMS and Congress can better help patients and families battling...
Nov 17, 2023
Stakeholders Weigh in on CMS Hospital Outpatient Payment Policies, But CMS Declines to Adopt Suggested Reforms
  Currently, payments for diagnostic positron emission tomography (PET) scans of the brain or other parts of the body when offered in the hospital outpatient department (HOPD) are bundled together to cover all associated costs with administering the scans, including the radiopharmaceuticals...
Nov 02, 2023
Disparities in chronic disease among mothers are a racial justice issue
The latest data on maternal mortality from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that childbirth is getting more dangerous for mothers, especially Black mothers.   From 2020 to 2021, the maternal mortality rate jumped by more than one-third.[1] The Black maternal mortality rate...
Oct 19, 2023
Tell Medicare: People with Alzheimer’s Disease Deserve the Same Access to Care as Those with Other Illnesses!
The vast majority of Americans know someone battling Alzheimer’s disease – either as a patient, family member or as a caregiver. Early diagnosis and access to innovative treatments are critical to lowering the toll of Alzheimer’s disease and we’ve reached a defining moment...
Jun 07, 2023
Debunking Oregon’s Cost Argument in Denying Access to Accelerated Approval Drugs
March 15, 2022 Updated: September 28, 2022   By: Kenneth E. Thorpe. Ph.D.   The Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval pathway was created to hasten access to safe and effective new therapies for people living with serious or life-threatening conditions where...
Mar 15, 2022
Testicular Cancer: Unpreventable Yet Very Treatable
By: Dr. Salvatore J. Giorgianni, PharmD, Sr. Science Adviser, Men’s Health Network   Ok, how many of you guys out there know that April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month?  Unfortunately, most guys, not even many health care providers know that April is the month dedicated to...
Apr 22, 2021
Antibiotic Action is Needed Now for Effective, Protective Options Later
CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO.    Today we are living with the realities of a highly contagious, infectious disease for which we were globally unprepared. While COVID-19 is permeating communities nationwide, and significant progress towards treatments and a vaccine continues, it is clearly an...
Aug 13, 2020

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