There's a moment most of us know or will know. Sitting in an exam room waiting for results. Watching a loved one go through surgery. Managing a chronic condition from home with a device that didn't exist a decade ago.
In those moments, medical technology isn't an abstraction. It's the difference between knowing and not knowing, between a treatment that works and one that doesn't, between staying home and staying in the hospital.
That access is not guaranteed. Policies at every level of government — coverage decisions, regulatory frameworks, reimbursement structures, state-level rules — shape whether patients can actually get the technologies their doctors recommend.
When those policies get it wrong, the consequences are real: delayed diagnoses, foregone treatments, and innovations that never reach the people who need them most.
The Coalition to Protect Patient Care was founded to engage those fights directly. Our mission is to raise public awareness of what's at stake in medical technology policy and to advocate for approaches that put patients first.
We believe policy should expand access, not restrict it. Decisions affecting medical technology should be grounded in science and clinical evidence, not politics or uninformed assumptions.
Our work focuses on three areas:
In this space, you'll find research, policy analysis, and commentary on the issues that matter most to patients and to the future of medical technology in America.
We'll be direct about where policy is falling short and clear about what better looks like.
We have a lot of work to do. Let's get started.