​​In This Week’s Issue:
1. PIPC Submits Letter to ICER on Value Assessment Process, click here to view the letter.
2. Health Affairs Blog: Budget Criteria And Drug Value Assessments: A Case Of Apples And Oranges?, click here to view the article.
3. Health Affairs: Incorporating Patient-Reported Outcomes Into Health Care To Engage Patients And Enhance Care, click here to view the article (subscription only).
4. The Health Care Blog: Statin Wars Less-is-More versus Unlimited Medicine, click here to view the blog post.
5. GAO Makes Appointments to PCORI Governing Board, click here to view the press release.
6. PCORI Research in Action: Hepatitis Research, click here to view the article.
7. Medical Journal Articles, see details below.
8. Upcoming Events and Webinars, see details below.
9. AHRQ Effective Program Updates, see details below.

The Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) and over 40 organizations representing patients, people with disabilities and providers submitted a letter to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) in response to their request for input on their value assessment process.  In the letter, the organizations stated, “Simply put, if we aren’t paying for care that patients’ value, we aren’t really paying for value-based care.”

​In This Week’s Issue:
1. PIPC Joins Over 40 Organizations on Letter to ICER on Value Assessment Process, click here to view the letter.
2. Morning Consult: Cost-Cutting Proposals Could Cost Life Spans, click here to view the article.
3. Video: Dr. Alan Balch Explains the Difference Between Various Value Frameworks, click here to view the video.
4. Washington Examiner: President Obama's Proposed Price Controls Could Hurt Sick, clickhere to view the article.
5. Video: Dr Scott Breidbart Explains the Concerns with Paying for Adherence, click here to view the video.
6. PCORI Blog: Taking on Childhood Obesity, click here to view the blog post.
7. Medical Journal Articles, see details below.
8. Upcoming Events and Webinars, see details below.
9. AHRQ Effective Program Updates, see details below.

In This Week’s Issue:
1. JAMA Forum: Time to Hit the Pause Button on Medicare’s Payment Demonstration Projects?, click here to view the article.
2. Medical Ethics: Incontinence A Fate Worse Than Death? Really?, click here to view the article.
3. Scoping Document for ICER Review of Abuse-Deterrent Opioid Formulations Open for Public Comment, click here to view the announcement.
4. PCORI Call for Research Questions: Help Identify Opportunities to Improve Care for Cardiovascular Diseases, click here to view the blog post.
5. PCORI to Re-Open Multiple Sclerosis Funding Announcement, click here to view the pre-funding announcement.
6. Medical Journal Articles, see details below.
7. Upcoming Events and Webinars, see details below.
8. AHRQ Effective Program Updates, see details below.