On March 23, an op-ed written by three prominent community leaders, Ms. Hazel Dukes, Rev Kirsten John Foy, and Rev Dr. Johnnie Green, was published in several outlets, including savenysafetynet.com and empirereportnetwork.com. Their op-ed highlights the severe damage that will be inflicted on vulnerable communities resulting from the impending policy of the New York Department…
My daughter Gabriella is a huge Taylor Swift fan, and one of her favorite Swift songs is “Look What You Made Me Do.” You might not think the song has any application to health care policy, but the connection became clear when I watched a recent Senate Finance Committee hearing on the cost of prescription…
MANCHESTER, Ky. — Grace Health opened a new clinic in Manchester on Wednesday to serve the people of Clay County and the region. The $4.3 million clinic, paid for with a grant from Health Resources and Services Administration, employs nine clinicians with an additional support staff and provides care regarding family practice, internal medicine, women’s…
Allan Nichols took essential lessons from his dad’s life — a reverence for hard work, faith and family — but his mission grew out of Gary Nichols’ death. On Tuesday after Easter, Nichols was showing visitors his nonprofit health company’s newest clinic. His right arm was in a sling after shoulder surgery, and his shirt…
For the past couple of years, we’ve been deflecting a lot of threats to our health care system from the federal level. As CEO of Sacramento Native American Health Center, a nonprofit providing care to more than 26,000 patients, I am painfully aware of how much is at stake. But now we are facing another…
It is not an easy thing for a Ryan White clinic or community health center to serve the needs of all their clients who are living with or affected by HIV. In fact, in the current political climate where receiving level funding year after year is often the best-case scenario, providing the extensive amount of…
As legislators continued to debate the future of the 340B drug discount program on Wednesday, leaders at several major health systems in both urban and rural settings raised concerns over the serious risks they face if those savings sustain significant cuts. Already, those reductions have forced West Virginia University Medicine—which serves a large, rural population—to “regroup” and…
Two stalwart supporters of the 340B program in Congress appealed today for more help engaging lawmakers and more of the public in efforts to protect the drug discount program. Reps. David McKinley (R-W.V.) and Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) spoke at a May 16 Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by Vizient, a healthcare services company that contracts with…
The 340B discount program for prescription drugs used by safety-net hospitals needs better government oversight, several watchdog agency officials said at a Senate hearing. Although the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which oversees the program, has taken some important steps to improve oversight, “a number of important issues remain,” said Debra Draper, PhD, director…
Lawmakers turned their sharp scrutiny of the 340B program on drugmakers Tuesday, questioning why states and providers don’t know the ceiling prices within the drug discount program. In a hearing Tuesday, members of the Senate health committee asked government watchdogs why the Trump administration has delayed for the fifth time a rule that would set…