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Hospital Outpatient Issues
ACCC is committed to ensuring that cancer patients have access to the entire continuum of quality cancer care, including access to the most appropriate cancer therapies. Policy changes resulting from the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) continue to impact delivery of services provided in hospital outpatient departments. ACCC remains concerned that Medicare's payment policies will present obstacles to patient access to critical cancer therapies.
Final 2012 HOPPS Rule
On November 1, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) final rule for 2012. Read a summary. A conference call on the proposed rule and ACCC’s complete analysis of it will be available to members only, and can be accessed here. Log on to ACCC Members-only website; click on Member Resources.
Accountable Care Organizations
Will Accountable Care Organizations affect the way you deliver dancer care? Find out! ACCC's archived conference call reviews the proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers better coordinate care for Medicare beneficiaries by establishing accountable care organizations (ACOs). ACCC discusses the rule and its potential impact on oncology.
ACCC Members can listen to the archived conference call. You'll need to log in.
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