Letter

Excerpt: “According to a recent Motherboard investigative report, nationwide wireless carriers may be continuing to sell American customers’ real-time location data and information to various third parties without customers’ knowledge and consent. According to the report, Zumigo, a location aggregation firm, purchased geolocation data from T-Mobile, and subsequently sold that data to Microbilt, a third party firm, which further disseminated the geolocation data to another company and intermediary. This practice of selling and sharing of location information through multiple entities potentially impacts hundreds of millions of American customers. We are...

WASHINGTON, DC – In June 2018, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) sent letters to a sample of state hospital associations regarding the availability of Sexual Assault Forensic Exams (“SAFE kits”). Chairman Walden today shared each individual response from the various hospital associations.

To read a copy of the response from the Alabama Hospital Association, click here.

To read a copy of the response from the Arkansas Hospital Association, click documents 1, 2, 3, and 4.

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Excerpt: “Today, PBMs manage prescription drug benefits on behalf of a wide array of entities – employer-sponsored health plans, health maintenance organizations, Medicaid managed care plans, and Medicare Part D plans. In fact, a February 2016 report estimated PBMs serve 266 million Americans—most of whom are enrolled in private health plans—and can save plan sponsors significant money on drug benefit costs using a wide range of tools. This study also estimated that the use of these tools will save a total of $654 billion across plan sponsors and members, Medicare...

Excerpt: “Through its public hearings, the committee has heard differing views from experts on the extent to which consolidation is a cost driver in the Medicare program and the degree to which payment policies of the Medicare program encourage such consolidation. Some have questioned the merit of concerns over consolidation and have instead highlighted the beneficial efficiencies and economies of scale that can be accomplished through consolidation. For example, in testimony before the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on May 21, 2014, during a hearing entitled ‘Keeping the Promise: Site-of-Service...