Policy letters and testimony

The PAN Foundation joined a letter from 95 national organizations, including the National Council on Aging, urging Congress to include continued funding for Medicare low-income outreach and enrollment efforts in the Lame Duck funding and extenders package.

The PAN Foundation signed on to a letter with 73 other organizations in support of H.R. 8412, the Clinical Trial Modernization Act, which would make it easier for people to participate in clinical trials by addressing non-medical expense barriers, facilitating remote participation, issuing grants to support community outreach for recruitment of underrepresented groups, and removing taxation burden of some financial support.

The PAN Foundation strongly urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid to lower the ACA plan maximum out-of-pocket limit of $10,000 in the proposed rule, and to require insurers and pharmacy benefit managers to include copay assistance payments in their calculation of an enrollee’s out-of-pocket limit. Additionally, PAN urged CMS to prohibit the harmful strategies by plans of designating certain drugs as non-essential health benefits and then collecting the copay assistance from drug manufacturers and the growing practice of alternative funding programs.

The Consortium for Medically Necessary Oral Health Coverage and nearly 250 leading organizations, including the PAN Foundation, commended the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for expanding access to medically necessary dental care linked to critical treatments like dialysis for end-stage renal disease.