Health Care Value

Priorities in 2026 MPFS and OPPS Proposed Rules

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXrgWNM-vGg[/embed] In July, the Trump Administration proposed major changes to how Medicare pays for hospital care and physician services in the Ou...

Consumers First Statement For The Record For Senate HELP Committee Hearing on Affordability

Families USA, on behalf of the Consumers First alliance, submitted this statement for the record for the July 31 Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, "Making Health...

Consumers First 2025 Administrative Agenda: Regulatory Policy Solutions to Drive Value Into the U.S. Health Care System

America’s families, workers, employers and clinicians are caught in a severe health care affordability and quality crisis. While policymakers have taken steps in recent years to begin to lower healt...

Families USA Statement for the Record for Ways and Means Health and Oversight Subcommittee Hearing On Medicare Advantage

Families USA submitted a statement to the Ways and Means Health and Oversight Subcommittees thanking committee members for holding a timely hearing and stressing the importance of reform in the Medica...

Families USA Submits Comments On 2026 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule

Families USA along with 30 organizations submitted comments on proposed Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) regulation for Calendar Year 2026. The comment letter details t...

Families USA and Public Citizen Lead 37 Organizations Representing Consumers, Patients, Providers, and Unions to Oppose the Ensuring Pathways to Innovative Cures (EPIC) Act of 2025

Families USA and Public Citizen led 37 organizations representing consumers, patients, providers, and unions in sending a clear message to health care committee leadership that the IRA's Medicare Nego...

Families USA Testimony for Nevada State Assembly on Hospital Price Transparency

On Wednesday, March 19, Families USA’s Senior Policy Analyst Aaron Plotke testifies before the Nevada State Assembly in support of legislation that codifies a strengthened version of the federal Hos...

Families USA Testimony to Indiana State Senate on High and Rising Hospital Prices

On Wednesday, March 19, Families USA’s Senior Director of Health Policy Sophia Tripoli testifies before the Indiana Senate Health and Provider Services Committee in support of legislation that would...

Lay of the Land: Primary Care, Provider Payments and What’s Next

High-quality primary care is the foundation of an efficient, effective and comprehensive health care system. Primary care serves as the main entry point into health care for families, children, aging ...

Consumers First Legislative Agenda 2025: Policy Solutions for the 119th Congress to Drive Value into the U.S. Health Care System

Today, responding to voters clamoring for health care affordability and value, Consumers First, a national alliance representing families, working people, employers, and primary care clinicians, relea...