Payers, Plan Sponsors Hope for 2022 Telehealth, Drug Price Laws

  • Dec 23, 2021

    Carriers and plan sponsors are taking stock of what federal policies deserve a fresh look as they work though tumultuous events like the pandemic and the telehealth boom. In the next year, major industry trade groups plan to push for policies including drug price reform and comprehensive telehealth regulation.

    For the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP), a trade group of nonprofit carriers, top priorities include changing Medicare Advantage risk adjustment rules to account for audio telehealth encounters, making some pandemic-era rules for telehealth permanent and passing drug price reforms. (ACHP also laid out more priorities in a Dec. 9 blog post.)

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  • Peter Johnson

    Peter has worked as a journalist since 2011 and has covered health care since 2020. At AIS Health, Peter covers trends in finance, business and policy that affect the health insurance and pharma sectors. For Health Plan Weekly, he covers all aspects of the U.S. health insurance sector, including employer-sponsored insurance, Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces. In Radar on Drug Benefits, Peter covers the operations of (and conflicts between) pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers, with a particular focus on pricing dynamics and market access. Before joining AIS Health, Peter covered transportation, public safety and local government for various outlets in Seattle, his hometown and current place of residence. He graduated with a B.A. from Colby College.

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