Consumer Health Advocacy Information Network

04/23/2025

Rap Artist Fat Joe Fights for Hospital Transparency & Patient Rights

Grammy-nominated artist Fat Joe joins Michael Kosta to talk about his advocacy for transparent healthcare pricing with the organization Power to the Patients...

04/23/2025

Reigning in Unchecked Drug Middlemen is a Life or Death Matter

A bill at the Colorado Legislature would hold pharmacy benefit managers accountable and rein in the sky-high costs of prescription drugs.

04/23/2025

LBTQ/HIV Communities Call for Lower Drug Prices and 340B Reform

Colorado has a history of standing up for vulnerable communities, but a lack of transparency in the massive drug program threatens that commitment.

04/23/2025

Working Families Pummeled by Abuse of Drug Discounts

In Colorado, working families are being squeezed at the pharmacy counter while large billion-dollar hospital systems are exploiting a program designed to help patients and under-served communities. The tremendous growth

04/23/2025

Diversion of Drug Discounts for the Poor

There is bipartisan agreement that a federal program aimed at providing cheaper prescriptions is critical but also broken. At the Colorado Capitol, there are dueling bipartisan bills on how to fix it.

03/26/2025

Mayo Clinic Press launches new consumer health and wellness podcast portfolio!

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-press-launches-new-consumer-health-and-wellness-podcast-portfolio/

Mayo Clinic Press launches consumer health and wellness podcast portfolio, offering insight on a broad spectrum of health topics.

03/24/2025

Learn more about how billions of dollars meant to improve patient care isn’t reaching those most in need. (Partner Content)

03/21/2025

Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital’s patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program.

03/19/2025

Through a government program aimed at helping low-income patients, some hospitals buy medications at reduced prices. They can sell them to patients and their insurers for much more.

03/18/2025

The Colorado Legislature is considering a bill that could be the most impactful one introduced in the last several years to help give lower income patients access to affordable medication, and we like it!!

SB-124 requires non-profit hospitals to use the dollars they get through the Federal 340B program to decrease the out-of-pocket costs for low-income patients. That's exactly what that Federal program was suppose to do, and this bill reinforces the intent and ends the fraud that has overtaken it.

Thank you to the two Republican and two Democrat legislators that came together for the good of the consumer. Barbara Kirkmeyer Julie Gonzales . Kyle Brown Garcia Brown

If you know any of the Senators on the Health & Human Services Committee, please urge them to pass this bill out of Committee so that we consumers can more easily join the conversation.

03/17/2025

Are below cost reimbursement practices by Pharmacy Benefit Managers creating opportunity for criminals to enter the legitimate supply chain?

PBMs, by under reimbursing pharmacies, are creating a demand for pharmacies to seek lower priced medications even when they can't exist at that price.. Criminals appear to be happy to become part of the supply chain.