Policy letters and testimony

The PAN Foundation joined a letter from All Copays Count Coalition to the Secretaries of the US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury, urging them to ensure that any revision to the cost-sharing rule for copay accumulator adjustment policies includes protections that guarantee copayments made by patients count toward their annual cost-sharing contributions.

Alliance for Aging Research and the PAN Foundation submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on implementing the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan (M3P). The comments aim to ensure that Medicare patients can easily access and benefit from the Medicare prescription "smoothing" program.

The PAN Foundation joined 18 other healthcare advocacy organizations in a letter from the Alternative Funding Task Force to the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury, urging them to ensure that the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s cost-sharing requirements apply to all prescription drugs covered by all non-grandfathered health insurance plans.

The PAN Foundation submitted a letter to Senators Roger Marshall and Ben Ray Lujan in support of the Electronic Prior Authorization for Prescription Drugs Act (S. 4349). The legislation would streamline prior authorization by mandating that health plans implement a secure electronic system for the transmission of requests.