News
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: July 6, 2023
New recommendations from MedPAC that would lower reimbursements for some Part B drugs threaten to potentially put some practices with infusion serv...
Opinion
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: May 2, 2023
Costs for specialty drugs can be much higher for both employers with self-funded insurance plans and their employees when they allow an insurance c...
Opinion
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: March 16, 2023
Fellows who learned about the influence that pharmacy benefit managers have on drug costs and access at the Coalition of State Rheumatology Organiz...
Opinion
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: January 18, 2023
Dr. Madelaine Feldman describes the unintended consequences of what were thought to be good ideas at the time: Giving safe harbor from the Anti-Kic...
News
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: November 14, 2022
Dr. Mattie Feldman looks back on the successes and frustrations with health policy legislation and regulation and insurance companies in 2022, with...
News
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: September 20, 2022
The CSRO is developing a employer tool kit that educates employers with self-funded health plans about the pitfalls of some of their drug coverage ...
Opinion
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: July 21, 2022
Dr. Mattie Feldman explains the advocacy work that the Coalition of State Rheumatology Organizations and other groups are undertaking to address lo...
News
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: May 23, 2022
“Gold card” legislation already passed or in the works in several states has potential to reduce prior authorization burdens on clinicians, but som...
Opinion
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: March 16, 2022
Not only will the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2020-21 help to eliminate much of the “transparency gap” in the system, but it may encourage em...
News
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: January 19, 2022
Efforts to report and address rheumatologists’ frustrations brought on by the profit-first, patient care–second p...
News
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: November 12, 2021
In the coming year, prepare to advocate to legislators for policies that prohibit payers from mandating the use of white bagging, brown bagging, an...
Opinion
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: September 20, 2021
Dr. Mattie Feldman calls on rheumatologists to take third-party administrators to task for convincing businesses that use self-funded health insura...
News
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: July 16, 2021
Dr. Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman recounts recent advocacy wins across states in fighting copay accumulators, step therapy, and pharmacy benefit manag...
Opinion
- Author:
- Madelaine (Mattie) Feldman, MD
Publish date: May 12, 2021
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