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Each year, in conjunction with the ACCC Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit, ACCC members come to Washington, D.C., for our Capitol Hill Day. Across the board, these members tell us how much they’ve enjoyed this unique opportunity to meet in small groups, or even one-on-one, with their legislators and congressional staffers to talk about challenges—and successes—at their cancer programs …
On October 25, 2018, President Trump addressed a campaign promise ahead of the heavily contested mid-term elections regarding his administration’s continued drug pricing reform efforts. Healthcare leadership under the Trump administration unveiled a three-prong plan using the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to test three ways to lower the costs of drugs, aimed largely at Medicare …
Autumn signals seasonal changes, but one constant is the annual assessment of the policy implications of the proposed Medicare payment rules for the upcoming calendar year. In this 2019 rule-making cycle, access to care and the overall reimbursement and healthcare delivery landscape have the potential to undergo a drastic shift. In September ACCC submitted comments to both the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule …
QA 2019 MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG ANNUAL OPEN ENROLLMENTThe Annual Open Enrollment for Medicare prescription drug coverage (Part D) is October 15, 2018 – December 7, 2018 for coverage beginning January 1, 2019. Certain people with Medicare can also change plans at other times (see question #10). Plans make changes to benefits and costs, and there are also new plans in many areas …
Nearly four months have passed since the Trump Administration released its blueprint for lowering drug prices. In the intervening time, there has been scrutiny of administration discussion on implementation of various proposals outlined in the plan. Most recently, during the month of August the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) used its authority to the fullest, releasing two policy …
Although the Trump administration has maintained a steady drumbeat on pharmaceutical pricing in recent months, promising lower costs for patients and less spending for the government, it wasn’t until late summer that we started to see what this White House had in mind.
On July 25, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule, and we are seeing several efforts to continue the push towards “site neutral” payments in off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs). This rule was issued weeks after the CY 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, and the atypical lag time …
Summer in Washington, D.C., has always had a strong correlation to heated political activity. As the temperatures climb this month, proposed policies to reform the way the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pays providers for drugs and services are heating up as well. On July 12, 2018, CMS released its CY 2019 proposed Physician Fee Schedule rule, putting forward some significant proposals …
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Secretary Alex Azar has expressed strong interest in revitalizing Medicare’s Competitive Acquisition Program (CAP) and introducing negotiation into Part B drug pricing.
It’s been nearly one month since President Trump announced the administration’s plan to tackle rising drug costs through a four-pronged policy approach outlined in American Patients First: The Trump Administration Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs. Despite the blueprint’s lack of policy detail, two specific proposals appear to be bubbling to the top of the White House’s …
Today – Friday, May 11, 2018 – President Trump announced the administration’s plan to tackle rising drug costs in the United States through a four-pronged policy approach outlined in “American Patients First: The Trump Administration Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs.” Proposed strategies seek to lower prescriptions drug costs through increased competition, improved …
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Here in Washington, D.C., as we count down the days remaining in the Congressional August recess, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reminded us that big changes in healthcare are not limited to the political brinkmanship of ACA repeal. On July 13, 2017, the agency released its CY 2018 proposed Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Physician Fee Schedule …
Summer headlines have been dominated by congressional efforts to repeal and replace portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and find a politically palatable path forward to shoring up the nongroup insurance market.
Rockville, Md. – ACCC applauds the 92 Senators and 392 House members who voted “yes” on H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. This bipartisan, bicameral compromise took remarkable leadership on both sides of the aisle and finally provides physicians with the predictable, appropriate payments they need to continue to provide high-quality cancer care. "Last night’s historic …
ROCKVILLE, Md. – Last week the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its much-anticipated Oncology Care Model (OCM), a new voluntary program for physician–led practices to test the bundling of payments for chemotherapy administration. The OCM is the second specialty care model to be announced at CMMI, and the first in …
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