During the lame-duck session of Congress, members of the Safe Step Coalition will be launching a comprehensive outreach campaign to pressure Congress to include the Safe Step Act in one of the legislative packages that will be voted on before the end of the year. This toolkit provides resources you can use to promote this…
By: Matt Werbach In 2018, when psoriasis lesions began to show on Seritta Frazee’s face, she decided it was time to take her disease seriously and to find the right treatment. Before then, she’d gotten away with covering her skin, but no one wants to live life in a ski mask. With some other diseases…
On October first, 40 national patient and provider organizations sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in response to the recent announcement that Medicare Advantage plans can require step therapy for physician-administered drugs starting in 2019. In the letter, the organizations urged HHS to implement a robust exceptions process for…
A group of eager volunteers descends on Congress for our 14th annual Capitol Hill Day Fly-in. On Sunday, March 18, 24 volunteers from 16 states along with six doctors and scientists arrived in Washington, D.C., to prepare for our annual trip to Congress. Our dual mission: to persuade our elected representatives to devote more funding…
Because of the rise in costs of conventional medical treatments, many patients nowadays are beguiled by their health insurance companies into undergoing considerably less expensive options such as step therapy. This “wealth before health” kind of thinking is actually futile and unwise, at best, since step therapy is never a good option in treating life-threatening…
The core business of an insurance company is usually to make profits. When meeting their obligations as the insurer, their first instinct is to find the cheapest solution possible in the market, sometimes this is done to the detriment of the insured. When you fall sick, the best way to move forward is to engage…