Paying for climate provisions with drug pricing savings is going to be... (gulp) a tough pill to swallow.

Just because you need an IV therapy doesn't mean you need to be hospitalized. In an op-ed for TheHillOpinion, Buddy Carter highlights how Medicare's home infusion benefit is failing in its promise to promote home-based care for Medicare beneficiaries.

The #NCPALTCDivision worked diligently with ASCP and Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition to form the Alliance for Long-Term Care Pharmacy @ Home, a new coalition to advocate for the expansion of LTC pharmacy services to home- and community-based patients. Learn more at pharmacyathome.org.

Equalizing payments between hosptial outpatient departments and physician's offices is becoming an increasingly popular topic on Capitol Hill, with the potential to generate tens-of-billions in savings ($$$) for the Medicare program. Health policy-watchers should take note.

Bipartisan support for site-neutral payment policy continues to build ahead of Ways and Means Committee legislative hearing this week.

Petty wars at CNN.

At Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on health care competition, Rep. Kim Schrier, M.D. highlights concerns that annual Medicare cuts to doctors are having a negative impact on physician practices.

The centrist think tank Third Way Economic calls for site-neutral reforms to be paired with an increase in payments to physicians. “As part of site-neutral policies, Congress should increase payments to physicians at the same time it lowers payments to hospitals...”

In STAT, Dr. Ian Lipkin of Center for Infection & Immunity and Elizabeth Ansell of #NotJustFatigue make the case that the NIH RECOVER Initiative offers an historic opportunity to transform post-viral illness research by learning from related conditions like ME/CFS: statnews.com/2025/02/04/rec…

The NIH's flagship program to address Long COVID — known as the RECOVER Initiative — is failing to take advantage of existing science, and has fallen woefully short in funding clinical trials that could represent meaningful breakthroughs.