In the final days of March as the enrollment period in Obamacare winds down, the Weekly Dose brings you the latest stories on the enrollment figures, as well as updates on the NY State of Health insurance exchange, a new initiative to collect health care data and bills moving in the Legislature.
The Northeast Kidney Foundation helped teach lawmakers about the disease, risk factors and the importance of screening and early intervention.
Important action alert on Prescriber Prevails. Take a moment to watch the video and then call your legislator to register your concern. Thank you.
Prescriber prevails is a policy that allows medical providers and patients to have the final say over medication decisions. This year, the Executive budget proposes to reduce prescriber prevails – cutting patient access to important medications. Patient groups across New York State are calling on their state representatives to protect prescriber prevails in Medicaid and extend it to all therapeutic classes. We ask Governor Cuomo, the New York State Senate, and the New York State Assembly to protect prescriber prevails and extend it to all medication classes in Medicaid.
Weekly Dose of Health News for March 10-14, 2014 is here!
There are only 20 days left to find the right insurance plan that meets your health and budget needs! The deadline to sign up for the New York State of Health for 2014 – and avoid a penalty- is on March 31! If you are looking for guidance, visit PuttingPatientsFirst.net. The great tools within the website
This week, along with several important articles about health care, the insurance industry and a new development in curing babies with AIDS, we are providing links to timely updates on the President’s budget and its effect on reducing innovation in the bio-pharmaceutical sector, which will undermine new medical advances and job creation.
Topping off the Weekly Dose of Health News is a reminder to fill out this brief survey on “prescriber prevails” to gauge patient experience accessing their medications. If you have already completed this survey, you do not need to do so again. If you have not, please return as soon as possible.
Below please find information on an important and exciting webinar on the new website: Putting Patients First.
This website and initiative is a useful tool in helping patients find the best healthcare plans for them, and the webinar will help advocates and individuals better understand the many tools the website has to offer.
Please join in tomorrow!
This week’s Dose brings you updates on the health exchange enrollment numbers in New York and other states, as well as articles on new tobacco-free program funding, studies on obesity and post-menopausal women, complications of the Medicaid waiver and reports of a deal with labor unions and community groups to save Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn.