In This Week’s Issue:
1. Roll Call: PIPC Chairman Coelho on Patient-Centeredness, Comparative Effectiveness, and Value, click here to view the op-ed. 
2. PIPC Executive Director to Present on LAN Panel on Patient-Centeredness, click here to register for the event.
3. CMS Extends Deadline for Comments on MACRA, Alternative Payment Models, see details below.
4. The Hill: Cuts to Key Healthcare Agencies are Bad Medicine, click here to view the op-ed.
5. Transforming Research by Partnering With Patients - A View from the Field, click here to view the blog post.

In This Week’s Issue:
1. PIPC Executive Director to Present on Oct. 26 to LAN Participants on Patient-Centeredness, click here to register for the event.
2. LAN Webinar: Payment Models Focused on Low-Income and Vulnerable Populations, click here to register for the webinar.
3. CMS Accepting Comments on MACRA, Alternative Payment Models, see details below
4. White Paper: Patient Engagement in the Development of New Treatments, click here to view the white paper
5. NASHP: Patient Perspective in State Health Policy Development, click here for details.
6. PCORI’s Selby: Finding Common Ground in the Search for Better Patient Care and Outcomes, click here to view the article.
7. PCORI Blogs on the Value of Patient and Family Engagement, click here and here to view the posts.

In This Week’s Issue:
1. LAN Updates: PIPC to Present at October 26 Summit; Webinar on Payment Models Focused on Low-Income and Vulnerable Populations; Guiding Committee Update, click here to register for the webinar.  
2. PCORI Board Approves $83 Million for Hepatitis C Studies, Rare Disease Research, and Other Patient-Centered Studies, click here to view the press release. 
3. FDA: Why Partnerships are Key to the Science of Patient Input, click here to view the post. 
4. Pink Sheet: Patient Engagement Early In Drug Development Requires Cultural Shift, click here to view the article (paid subscription required).
5. Video: Marc Boutin Examines the Underutilization of Patients, click here to view the video.
6. MedPage Today: Doctors Urged to Practice 'Conservative Diagnosis', click here to view the article. 
7. HHS Grants $685M to Clinicians for Patient-Centered Care: 8 Things to Know, click here to view the article. 
8. Moving From Evidence-Based Medicine to Evidence-Generating Medicine, click here to view the article. 
9. Forbes: Drug Price Demagoguery Could Hurt Patients, click here to view the article.
10. PCORI Blog Posts, see details below.