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Medicare Archive
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Congress Must Protect Access to Physician-Administered Biotech Therapies (Mar. 29, 2004)
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CMS Fails to Implement Key MMA Provision Protecting Access to New Medicines
Congress Should Urge the Agency to Act Now (Mar. 29, 2004)
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Summary Slides for Medicare Modernization Act (December 2003)
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Summary of the Medicare Conference Agreement (December 3, 2003)
Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003
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Hospital Outpatient Department Payment Reform (December 3, 2003)
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Reforms to Physician Payment for Drugs and Biologicals (December 3, 2003)
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Talking Points on Inpatient New Technology Add-on Payments (December 3, 2003)
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"Functional Equivalence": Limitation of Application (December 3, 2003)
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Drug "Importation" (December 3, 2003)
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Demonstration Project for Coverage of Certain Self-Administered Drugs and Biologicals (December 3, 2003)
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Payment for ESRD Drugs Outside Composite Rate (December 3, 2003)
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Hatch-Waxman Reform Provisions (December 3, 2003)
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Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003 Fact Sheet
Legislation Offers Important Coverage to Seniors While Safeguarding Innovation (Nov. 18, 2003)
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CMS Releases Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule
for 2004 (Nov. 6, 2003)
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House and Senate Medicare Bills
Preserving Patient Access to Innovation (Oct. 31, 2003)
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House and Senate "Functional Equivalence" Provisions Starkly Different
House Provision Could Stifle Innovation (July 24, 2003)
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Prior Authorization Safeguards (July 2003)
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Medicare OPPS Threatens Patient Access
to Critical Biological Therapies (March 11, 2003)
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OPPS Chronology (Feb 12, 2003)
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Summary of OPPS proposed regulation for FY 2003
Outpatient Prospective Payment System (Aug. 9, 2002)
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Implementation of BIPA Section 533
Too Many Barriers to New Technology(October 1, 2001)
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Increasing drug expenditures
Are driven primarily by increased utilization and newer, often better products—not higher prices (April 18, 2001)
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R&D investment is the lifeblood of the biotechnology industry (May 10, 2001)
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Press Releases
BIO Praises Biofuels Report; Calls for Federal Funding for Biorefineries (12/8/2004)
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Congressional Action Would Protect Patient Access to Critical, Innovative Medicines (9/9/2003)
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BIO Calls Senate Committee's OPPS Measure an Excellent First Step (6/13/2003)
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BIO’s 'Keep the Care in Medicare' Ad Campaign Begins Second Wave (6/10/2003)
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Message to Congress: Keep the Care in Medicare! (5/12/2003)
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Keep the care in Medicare (5/8/2003)
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New BIO Ad Urges Congress to ‘Keep the Care in Medicare’ (5/8/2003)
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Congressmen Criticize Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Closed-door Approach to Rate-setting for Certain Biotech Drugs (5/7/2003)
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BIO and California Healthcare Institute To Host Briefing on Medicare Hospital Outpatient Reimbursement (3/12/2003)
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BIO Board Member and CEO of Alkermes Richard F. Pops, To Testify On Medicare Issues (1/29/2003)
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BIO Calls for Restoration of Medicare Drug Coverage (1/29/2003)
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Medicare Patients Face a New Year With Yesterday’s Medicines (12/18/2002)
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CMS Delays OPPS Payment Cuts For Breakthrough Medicines (12/19/2001)
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OPPS Cut Harms Patients, Defies Congressional Intent (11/29/2001)
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