Dec 9, 2020
President-elect Biden has a unique opportunity to refocus our health care system on patients in ways we have never seen before. The COVID-19 pandemic presents our greatest challenge and perhaps our greatest opportunity to solve long-standing and emergent health...
Jul 10, 2020
Recent protests against police brutality have forced the country to face the role our institutions play in perpetuating racism. As with law enforcement, we must hold our health care system accountable for discrimination and the effect it has on health outcomes....
Jan 27, 2020
Migraine, especially acute migraine, can be severe and devastating. “I know firsthand that migraine attacks are debilitating not just for me, but for my entire family,” Kristin Molacek, a mother of five young children and migraine patient in...
Jan 9, 2020
A new report on rheumatoid arthritis treatments published by a controversial cost appraiser is facing strong criticism from patient advocates, who say it minimizes the autoimmune disease as simply “morning stiffness” and “joint swelling”. The Institute for Clinical...
Jan 8, 2020
For many patients living with type 2 diabetes, daily injections are a substantial barrier to accessing current treatments. “I literally break down every time I have my bloods done,” one diabetes patient shares of her experience. Another adds, “I have the worst needle...
Nov 1, 2019
Most patients have never heard of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, but it plays a central role in deciding our access to the treatments prescribed by our doctors. That’s because ICER works with insurance companies to evaluate how medical treatments...
