LIFE SCIENCES PENNSYLVANIA

Health Issues

Spoke with members of the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation and hosted discussions with members of Life Sciences Pennsylvania to keep congressional representatives, and their staff, up to date on Pennsylvania's life sciences ecosystem and the community's efforts to research and develop medicines and technologies.

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)

Medicare/Medicaid

Continued to advocate to PA congressional delegation members for policies, like the PASTEUR Act, that incentivize the research and development of novel AMR medicines and educate members and their staff on the importance of antimicrobial research Expressed support for proposals that limit out-of-pocket costs for patients and expressed concern for certain drug pricing provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. Continued to ask members of the Pennsylvania delegation to sign on to legislation that would align the breakthrough designation of medical technologies with reimbursement by CMS - an issue important to our medical device and diagnostic members.

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs

Continued to urge the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation to support robust NIH funding and discussed ideas, such as locating ARPA-H in Pennsylvania to further invest in basic scientific research.