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“We feel like it’s going to be really negative for consumers,” said Krista Drobac, executive director of the Alliance for Connected Care, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group for the growing telehealth industry.” Read Article

“We are expecting to get extremely busy post-SGR,” said Krista Drobac, who represents an array of health care interests at Sirona Strategies, which she cofounded with Kristen Ratcliff. Still, Drobac added, “I think it’ll be pretty hard to rival the urgency of the SGR.” Read Article

Kristen Ratcliff, a partner at lobbying firm Sirona Strategies, which manages the telehealth trade group Alliance for Connected Care, called the bill “a significant opportunity for all types of vendors—health IT vendors, telehealth providers, predictive analytic companies and more.” Read Article

“Really the essence is state innovation. And it, at its core, permits state governments to use funding that would otherwise have gone to individuals and businesses to aggregate that funding to create different ways to cover people,” said Krista Drobac, Partner at Sirona Strategies. Read Article

These annual cuts have resulted in higher out-of-pocket costs and lost benefits for seniors across America,” the Better Medicare Alliance interim executive director, Krista Drobac, said in a statement after the president’s proposal was released. Read Article