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Learn how a thriving revenue cycle management process ensures well-timed revenue, steady collection, and healthy financial viability for a healthcare organization, while focusing on providing high-quality care to patients.
The new year brings with it new goals and plans for ACCC’s Financial Advocacy Network. But before talking about the innovations to come in 2022, let’s look back at the accomplishments of 2021.
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Healthcare professionals and patients can find information on the anti-cancer medication assistance and reimbursement programs that are available to alleviate the financial burden of cancer treatment.
On July 29, the ACCC Financial Advocacy Network hosted an interactive virtual Town Hall: Financial Navigation During the COVID-19 Crisis: Tips from Financial Advocates. Chair Lori Schneider, Oncology Operations Manager at Green Bay Oncology, moderated a panel discussion and Q&A focused on helping financial advocates help patients continue to be able to pay for their cancer treatment during the …
With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in unprecedented unemployment and an economic recession, financial advocacy services for cancer patients are more important than ever. At any given time, the job of financial advocates and navigators requires them to stay on top of rapidly changing assistance programs, insurance coverage changes, new state healthcare laws, and evolving community resources. The pandemic …
In April 2020, the U.S. unemployment rate reached an all-time high of 14.7 percent. By May 28, more than 40 million people in the U.S. had filed for unemployment insurance as the COVID-19 pandemic led to the shuttering of business after business. In an employer-based healthcare system, the repercussions of this massive unemployment can have a devastating effect on the ability to obtain healthcare …
By Angie Santiago As the Lead Financial Counselor at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, my job is to help patients understand what their health insurance covers and explore options for additional sources of financial support if necessary. Our center serves approximately 4,000 patients per year, and I help many of those patients locate the resources they …
When Lori Schneider helped create the first financial counselor role at Green Bay Oncology in Wisconsin in 2006, she was helping pioneer a solution to a need that would grow tremendously in the following years. “It's a key role,” says Schneider, “and the need for it is expanding, especially with the current insurance structure and huge out-of-pocket expenses for patients.” Today, Schneider has amassed …
Faced with the ever-growing cost of oral chemotherapy, our TPRxC team is passionate about securing financial support for our patients.
Understanding the magnitude and underlying considerations surrounding the multidimensional and controversial issue of cancer drug parity is important for evaluating the value of cancer treatments and the impact of related legislative efforts.
The financial burden of a cancer diagnosis impacts patients and families at all income levels—insured and uninsured, young and old alike, city folks and those in rural areas. Perhaps nothing communicated this reality more powerfully than last month’s CNN interview with Vice President Joe Biden when he shared the story of how his own family was challenged by the economic impact of his son’s cancer …
ROCKVILLE, Md. – The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) announces the release of the ACCC 2016 Patient Assistance and Reimbursement Guide. The user-friendly guide is designed to help cancer program staff quickly identify resources for patients who are struggling with the financial burdens that may come as an unwanted side effect of cancer. According to ACCC’s 2015 survey of member cancer …
ROCKVILLE, Md. – The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) announces the release of the ACCC 2015 Patient Assistance and Reimbursement Guide. This easy-to-use guide is designed to help cancer program staff identify resources for patients who may be overwhelmed with the financial burdens of cancer care, particularly uninsured and underinsured patients. Increasingly, there is recognition of …
No one would argue with the fact that stresses related to the financial burden of the cost of cancer treatment are the last thing cancer patients and their families need.