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    Medical Nutrition Therapy Act Would Benefit Medicare Recipients
    August 24, 2021
    If passed, the Medical Nutrition Therapy Act could expand Medicare Part B to cover medical nutrition therapy services for patients with cancer, who need to maintain their strength and keep a health body weight during treatment. ACCCBuzz shares more about this legislation and why its benefits are essential for oncology.
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    How Quality Improvement Can Reduce Inequities in Care
    By Emily Mackler, PharmD, BCOP
    August 17, 2021
    In a recent summit addressing the role of advanced practitioners (APs) in eliminating health disparities, participants felt strongly that APs have an important part to play in ensuring patient access to quality cancer care.
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    Grant Writing as a Means to Fund Supportive Cancer Care Services
    August 12, 2021
    Because supportive cancer care services are not reimbursed by payers, cancer programs and practices fund most of these patient-centered services from the bottom line of their budget. But COVID-19 has made that practice increasingly challenging, and many organizations are scrambling to identify other funding sources. In this blog post, we offer practical tips and strategies for writing a successful grant.
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    Legislation Aims to Ease Patient Access to Oral Oncolytics
    By Matt Devino, MPH
    August 10, 2021
    The enormous out-of-pocket cost difference between well-covered traditional chemotherapies and often-uncovered oral oncolytics can result in levels of financial toxicity from which many patients struggle to return. To address this issue, the U.S. House of Representatives has this year reintroduced the Cancer Parity Act, which seeks to resolve unequal cost-sharing for oral oncolytics.
  • Notes on Nursing: Learning From a Noble Expert
    By Robin B. Atkins, RN, OCN
    August 05, 2021
    Noble experts make some of the best teachers who often do their work in the trenches, consistently performing with humility and compassion. Their influence extends beyond the workplace into both their own lives and the lives of others, and often into history. In this blog, Robin Atkins, RN, OCN, remembers The James River Clinic and its noble experts.
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    ACCC Recognizes World Lung Cancer Day
    July 29, 2021
    August 1 marks World Lung Cancer Day. Long at the forefront of teaching multidisciplinary cancer care teams about how to best implement new and evolving lung cancer therapies into their programs and practices, ACCC shares several of its current initiatives to promote optimal lung cancer care delivery.
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    Early Palliative Care Program Proactively Meets Patient Needs
    July 22, 2021
    Palliative care services are an important element of comprehensive cancer care. However, patients are not usually introduced to palliative care providers until their services are needed. Read how Cancer Care Associates of York—a community-based private practice in York, Penn.—is changing this by identifying high-risk patients suitable for palliative interventions up front and allowing patients to access palliative care services as early as possible.
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    Catch a Ride, Save a Life: Transportation Program Reduces No-Shows
    July 20, 2021
    Cone Health Cancer Center—a 2021 ACCC Innovator Award winner—is fighting for health equity by addressing the barriers to care that unequally affect lower-resourced communities in the rural and urban setting of Greensboro, N.C. Learn how the cancer center has built a transportation program that provides free round-trip rides to all patients from their homes to their medical appointments.
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    Integrating Community Paramedics into the Cancer Care Team
    July 08, 2021
    Through a partnership with Albuquerque Ambulance Service, a local community paramedic group that is a division of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Presbyterian enables qualifying patients with cancer access to certain clinical interventions and wellness checks in their homes from a specialized paramedicine oncology team. The goal of the program is to reduce patient utilization of the ED and reduce inpatient admissions by addressing some patients’ treatment-related symptoms at home.
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    Managing COVID+ Oncology Patients at Home During Treatment
    July 07, 2021
    The COVID-19 pandemic posed many new complications for cancer programs and practices across the United States. To keep COVID-19-positive patients with cancer out of the hospital where they could potentially infect others, Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Fairfax, Va., implemented remote patient monitoring technology to continually track patients’ vitals while they are at home and in between their outpatient treatments.
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    Addressing ED Incidental Imaging Findings Through Navigation
    July 06, 2021
    When a patient presents for care in an emergency department (ED), unexpected issues unrelated to their chief complaint may be flagged. To help patients better navigate our complex healthcare system after receiving news of an incidental finding during an ED visit, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Adult ED and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center partnered to follow-up with these patients after their discharge to help them initiate the appropriate follow-up care.
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    Cancer Care’s Road to Recovery from the Global Pandemic
    July 01, 2021
    An interview with Debra Patt, MD, PhD, MBA, FASCO, Executive Vice President, Public Policy and Strategic Initiatives, at Texas Oncology. Learn about what you can expect from Dr. Patt's keynote at the 38th ACCC National Oncology Conference.
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    Mobile App Eases Patient Cost-of-Care Conversations
    June 29, 2021
    Financial toxicity in oncology is a long-standing issue for patients with cancer. As increasing costs related to cancer care put financial strain on patients, so too do the indirect costs of a cancer diagnosis and treatment—travel, childcare, and other daily living needs. Learn how 2021 ACCC Innovator Award winner Dr. Lauren Hamel at Wayne State University School of Medicine; Karmanos Cancer Institute has set out to address current trends in treatment-related cost discussions between patients and their care team members through a mobile app to make these conversations a vital part of patients’ treatment plans.
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    Pride Month & Equality in Cancer Care
    June 28, 2021
    “I had difficulty trusting providers enough to seek the care that I needed. When my partner saw something unusual on my back and I had to try a new dermatologist, I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to his office,” says Scout, PhD, MA, executive director of the National LGBT Cancer Network. Learn more about the needs of LGBTQ patients and how you can help create a safe, inclusive space.
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    Tips for Helping Relieve Patients of Financial Burden
    June 25, 2021
    Knowing what co-pay assistance each patient needs and where to find it—often in short order—is key to successfully securing funding and ultimately enabling access to necessary treatment. These four key steps can help financial advocates obtain patients co-pay, premium, or travel assistance from independent patient foundations.
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    Virtual Reality Brings Patient Education to Life
    June 23, 2021
    Effective patient education helps patients better understand their diagnoses and participate in shared decision-making with their providers. Douglas Holt, MD, chief resident of radiation oncology at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, UCHealth-Oncology Services, is taking patient education to the next level: virtual reality.
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    Building Relationships: The Foundation for a Successful Service Line
    By Amanda Henson, MSHA, MBA, FACHE 
    June 22, 2021
    "Upon assuming my role in Baptist Health’s new oncology service line, I knew it was essential for me to continue strengthening my relationships with the physicians and leadership at the nine Baptist hospitals across Kentucky and Southern Indiana," says ACCC Board Member Amanda Henson, MSHA, MBA, FACHE. Learn how she achieved clinical, operational, and financial efficiencies to facilitate reliable, quality patient care across all sites while in her role.
  • Oncologist Needed - Share Your Experience with Managing Patients with CLL in the COVID-19/Post-COVID-19 Era
    June 22, 2021
    ACCC is seeking an oncologist to participate in a 30-minute key informant interview to share their experience with managing patients with CLL in the COVID-19/post-COVID-19 era.
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    Cancer Survivors Share Their Stories
    June 15, 2021
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    ACCC Raises Awareness for National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week
    June 14, 2021
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Oncology Center of Excellence, Project Community, has designated June 17 to June 23 as National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week. The week coincides with Juneteenth—an important date in our nation’s history that marks and celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. By participating in the #BlackFamCan social media effort, ACCC is building support and sharing knowledge with key stakeholders about the importance of including Black patients in cancer clinical trials and genetic databases for oncology research to improve access and effect change in cancer care delivery.

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