THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER

Funding levels for federal appropriation bills including Labor-HHS-Education, Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Commerce-Justice-Science that are related to biomedical research funding, healthcare delivery, training and education, protection of intellectual property and research. Funding for NIH and NCI. Issues relarted to the reorganization of NIH, ARPA-H.

Issue related to cyber security; vulnerability of healthcare providers to ransomeware attacks; theft of intellectual property. Events surrounding Change healthcare cyber attack.

Issues related to Medicare reimbursements for cancer services. Any legislation having to do with Medicare payments for dedicated cancer centers and hospitals; Medicare Advantage and preauthorization. Cuts to services related to cancer diagnosis and treatment. Hospital site of service payment policy changes. Issues related to increased access to cancer detection. Issues related to "White Bagging" of pharmaceutical products.

Issues related to the cost of pharmaceuticals; pharmacy benefit managers, white bagging, clear bagging and brown bagging. Legislation that includes drug administration reimbursement changes.

Policies and legislation related to drug discovery, clinical trials and commercialization.