by Cheryl DeMars | Apr 27, 2021 | Health Policy, Members & Employers
Price transparency is a hot topic in health policy right now. For good reason; employers and their employees fork over a large share of their incomes to health care every year, yet most have trouble planning for those expenses because of complex, often obscure pricing...
by Melina Kambitsi, Ph.D. | May 19, 2020 | Health Policy, Members & Employers
Last month, The Alliance was pleased to host National CooperativeRx CEO Josh Bindl, for a webinar where he discussed all things prescription drugs. Missed the webinar? You can view it here. The High Price We Pay Bindl opened his presentation with a plain and simple...
by Karen Timberlake | Mar 10, 2020 | Health Policy
The Alliance actively pursues value-based payment strategies as one of the four core drivers on the roadmap to high-value health care. The Alliance also supports a robust platform of health policy priorities, in part because federal and...
by Paul Meyer | Mar 3, 2020 | Health Policy, Members & Employers
“Wisconsinites should be able to afford the prescription medicine they need to lead a healthy lifestyle.” That was the sentiment delivered by Wisconsin Governor, Tony Evers, last August when he issued an executive order creating a drug task force to reduce...
by Karen Timberlake | Feb 4, 2020 | Health Policy
Health care affordability is gaining steam as a topic not just on the presidential debate stage but also among state and federal policy makers. Researchers at Altarum, a nonprofit health care consulting group, decided to dig into the relationship between the relative...
by Brandt Dietry | Dec 17, 2019 | Health Policy
Governor Tony Evers created the Governor’s Task Force on Prescription Drug Pricing in response to a growing concern over rising drug prices. In announcing the task force, the Governor said, “Picking up a medication shouldn’t break the bank, but it often does for our...
