The Healthcare Leadership Council issued the following news:
Experts from across healthcare have identified specific policy and regulatory recommendations to improve the nation s ability to prepare for and respond to future health crises. The recommendations are part of a new report released by the
Healthcare Leadership Council and
Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and result from collaboration with more than 100 private-sector, nonprofit, and government organizations and stakeholders to assess the response to COVID-19 and the nation s existing disaster preparedness infrastructure.
The recommendations include some temporary steps taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic, which have proven beneficial and should be made permanent going forward, the experts say. These include making it easier for public and private organizations to work in partnership, prioritizing supply chain readiness before crises arise, streamlining regulations that allow providers to practice medicine whe
Providers argued the policy is illegal and wouldn't lower drug prices or patients' out-of-pocket costs in comments on the interim final rule. Hospitals suggested CMS doesn't have the power to carry out such a large experiment.
Lobbying world Alex Gangitano
Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) will join
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner s public policy and government affairs group as a senior policy adviser. Carnahan served in Congress from 2005 to 2013.
Joyce Rogers was named
Pfizer s vice president of U.S. policy and public affairs. She previously was chief government affairs officer at Advocate Aurora Health and before that was senior vice president of government affairs at AARP.
BGR Group added former NATO Ambassador
Douglas Lute, who served during the Obama administration, as chairman of the firm s international and defense practices. Lute was NATO ambassador from 2013 to 2017 and before that was assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan during the George W. Bush administration.
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