PIPC Joins Over 80 Organizations Urging HHS Civil Rights Office to Ban QALYs Across Federal Programs10/3/2022
PIPC joined over 80 organizations in signing a letter to the HHS Office for Civil Rights commenting on the proposed rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. The groups support a comprehensive proposed rule seeking to strengthen civil rights protections in federally funded health programs and HHS programs and agreed that the ability to access needed health care fully and free from discrimination is critical and requires action to support and strengthen existing nondiscrimination laws.
In a letter to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) submitted comments on ICER's draft evidence report on treatments for beta thalessemia. In a letter to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) urged the commission to avoid reliance on discriminatory value assessment metrics as the basis for Medicare coverage policy. PIPC’s concerns stem from comments by MedPAC commissioners during the April 2022 public meeting where metrics of clinical and cost effectiveness were discussed, particularly the quality-adjusted-life-years (QALY) metric. PIPC Joins Over 60 Organizations Urging CMS to Reject QALY's in OR Waiver Renewal Application4/14/2022
In a letter to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) offered feedback on ICER's assessment of treatments for COVID-19. PIPC expressed disappointment in ICER's model for failing to capture both the full societal benefits of COVID-19 treatments, as well as the impact these treatments have on health equity. The letter also criticizes ICER's decision to rely on the discriminatory quality-adjusted-life-years (QALY) metric. |
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