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Families USA Statement for the Record for Senate Budget Committee Hearing on How Primary Care Improves Health Care Efficiency

Families USA submitted this statement for the record in advance of the Senate Budget Committee Hearing, “How Primary Care Improves Health Care Efficiency”, on March 6th, 2024. Robust and compre...

Families USA Submits Comments on CMS 2025 Medicare Advantage and Part D Advance Notice for Changes to Medicare Advantage Payment Policies

Families USA submitted comments on the Advance Notice of Methodological Changes for Calendar Year (CY) 2025 for Medicare Advantage (MA) Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies (i.e., 2...

Families USA Statement for the Record for Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Hearing on Rare Diseases

Families USA submitted this statement for the record in advance of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health “Legislative Proposals to Support Patients with Rare Diseases” on February 2...

Families USA Submits Comments on the Proposed Recission of Association Health Plan (AHP) Final Rule

The proposed rule aims to remove a 2018 regulation that expanded requirements for groups or associations to meet the definition of employer, and therefore able to offer health coverage. This caused co...

Families USA Provides Comment on Proposed Guidance for March-In Authority

Families USA submitted comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Commerce, and Department of Health and Human Services on a Request from Information Regardin...

Families USA Testimony on NJ Hospital Price Transparency Bill

Sophia Tripoli, Senior Director of Health Policy at Families USA, submitted testimony to the New Jersey Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee in advance of their committee hearin...

Families USA Statement for the Record for Senate HELP Hearing on High Drug Costs

Families USA submitted this statement for the record in advance of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)’s February 8 hearing "Why Does the United States Pay, by Far,...

Testimony of Sophia Tripoli Before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee “Health Care Spending in the United States: Unsustainable for Patients, Employers, and Taxpayers” Hearing

Hearing Highlights Hearing Playlist In this January 31 testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, Sophia Tripoli, Senior Director of Health Policy at Families USA, dis...

Families USA Comment on Discrimination on HHS’s Proposed Rule: Basis of Disability in Health and Human Service Programs or Activities

Families USA submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on their proposed rule “Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in Health and Human Service Programs or Activit...

Sophia Tripoli Testimony To The PA Office Of Attorney General on the Proposed Merger Of Washington Health Care Services, Inc., Into The University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Sophia Tripoli, Senior Director of Health Policy at Families USA, submitted testimony to the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General in advance of their public hearing on January 18, 2024 on the propo...