• Stop Discriminatory Value
    ​Standards in Health Care

    "Patients and people with disabilities face major threats as private insurers and government programs look to cut costs using quality-adjusted-life-years (QALYs) and other assessments that discriminate against patients, people with disabilities, and seniors."

  • Patient Groups to MedPAC: Don’t Rely on Cost-Effectiveness
    to Make Coverage Decisions
    In a letter to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), over 40 organizations representing patients, people with disabilities, and providers joined PIPC to express concerns about MedPAC’s consideration of cost effectiveness in Medicare.

  • PIPC Patient Blog: Our Children Are Worth It

    "As the mother of a 12-year-old daughter with MPS, I can't help but get the shivers when new policies come out that could discriminate against children with disabilities."

  • White Paper: Uses and Misuses of the QALY
    Ethical Issues and Alternative Measures of Value
    While QALYs have basic appeal for making population-level decisions (by reducing patient populations to single, aggregate numeric values), it also poses several significant concerns from the vantage point of patient-centeredness and efforts to preserve access to needed care for individual patients and people with disabilities. 

  • PIPC Webinar – The Perils of QALYs: Addressing Disability Discrimination 

    PIPC invites people with disabilities, patients, seniors, families, individuals experiencing disparities in care, providers and advocates to join our webinar to learn about value assessments, their potential for discrimination, and related public policy threats to beware of at both the federal and state level.  

Steering Committee

Meet the Chairman

PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho is a former United States congressman from California, and primary author and sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act. 
By 1994, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that some 800,000 more people with severe disabilities had found employment than were employed when his bill was first enacted.

In March 2009, Tony was named as Chairperson for the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC). In this capacity, Tony works to amplify the voice of the Partnership’s diverse members, including people with disabilities, racial and ethnic communities and the elderly, among others.