“As an example, Madelaine Feldman, MD, president of CSRO, and I are doing a web seminar with members of the Iowa legislature early next month over issues of pharmacy benefit managers and nonmedical switching for rheumatology practices,” Dr. Brooks says. “I started practicing in 1985, when many of the medicines we have today weren’t available, and I remember what it was like then to control the activity of the disease. Only by being involved with advocacy can we combat this.”
Linda Childers is a health writer located in the San Francisco Bay Area.