Health Care Delivery

Experts gathered to discuss policy changes and their impact on digestive research and patient care during the “Gastroenterology in the Age of Trump” session presented by the American Gastroenterological Association at Digestive Disease Week 2017, held May 6-9 in Chicago, Illinois.

A day after House Republicans voted to pass legislation that repeals and replaces large parts of the Affordable Care Act, Avik Roy, Forbes opinion editor and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, outlined what Republicans are trying to fix. After his presentation, he joined a panel discussion on what impact the American Health Care Act will have.

Reactions to the $8 billion amendment introduced by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) that helped seek Republican support for the American Health Care Act in the Senate.

The current form of the American Health Care Act would greatly impact patients in New Orleans, where a high percentage of people have chronic diseases that count as preexisting conditions, explained Michael Griffin, president and CEO of Daughters of Charity Services.

The Affordable Care Act replacement, the American Health Care Act, now heads to the Senate. Floor debate portrayed vastly different world views: one of a collapsing individual market where patients face rising out-of-pocket costs, and another in which those with serious chronic illnesses could return to the days of untouchable premiums.

According to a new study, socioeconomic disparities in mammography rates among Medicare beneficiaries decreased after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but the same pattern was not observed for colonoscopies.

Lawmakers averted the looming threat of a government shutdown when they forged a bipartisan deal to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends October 2017. The agreement includes substantial funding boosts for key health initiatives.

Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE, CEO of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP), discusses the biggest concerns and opportunities facing members of AMCP during this time of legislative and regulatory uncertainty and rising costs in healthcare.

Negotiations among House Republicans have led to a compromise that would amend the American Health Care Act and the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is concerned the amendment would undermine patient protections that are important for people with cancer, said Leah Ralph, director of health Policy at ACCC.