Prescription drug costs, especially for chronic conditions, are rising alarmingly. The Alliance of Community Health Plans is holding a Twitter chat to discuss the high cost of prescription drugs and ways to address the issue. 

The American Enterprise Institute hosts an event (and livestream) looking at the future of health coverage on the job. Employer-sponsored coverage has not eroded under the Affordable Care Act, but employers remain apprehensive about cost and regulation in the future.  Trends and options to be discussed include private exchanges, defined contribution plans, and corporate purchaser alliances.

The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds a hearing to examine the federal role in water and wastewater infrastructure.

John Hopkins University will hold its fifth annual Social Determinants of Health Symposium on race, racism and the healing of Baltimore. This year’s event comes one year after the death of Freddie Gray sparked unrest in the heart of the city.

An Institute of Medicine committee on health equity will hold its third meeting on efforts to improve economic well-being and community outcomes regarding access to health.  The workshop, to be held in Irvine, California, will also be available via live webcast.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden will deliver remarks at a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s event on health in Indian Country.

An increasing number of states are using managed care approaches to deliver Medicaid dental services. In this webinar, state policymakers from Kentucky, Arizona, and Pennsylvania will share their insights.

Two entities at Stanford University – Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality – hold a discussion on economics professor Raj Chetty’s recently published article on the relationship between people’s income and how long they are expected to live.