19 Quotes by Karen Ignagni

While these data are of little comfort to any senior who has experienced a problem, they do put the scope of the issue in perspective. Our community's job is to work collaboratively with beneficiaries, pharmacies, physicians and advocacy organizations to resolve any remaining transition issues.

This new joint venture will provide people throughout the health care sector and beyond the opportunity to hear from the nation's leading thought leaders who are in the trenches shaping the health care system for America's future.

There's no study to suggest this is taking place.

The subtext of the Democratic proposal is: If you have a problem, get a lawyer.

This approach has rewarded the over-utilization and misuse of services and resulted in higher payments when health care complications arise.

Access to an emergency room, if they reasonably believe they should go, they should go and be paid for appeals. Making sure that an individual that has a concern, a complaint, a grievance -- it needs to be handled expeditiously.

It's been a little too easy to attribute it to managed care. There are a number of factors here that could explain overcrowding and increases in the numbers of people in certain periods going to the emergency room.

That's a conversation that's proven to be an extremely difficult conversation, state by state and in Washington.

In many cases, the plans have negotiated lower rates than Medicaid with pharmaceutical companies.