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State legislation across the U.S. is tackling health insurance coverage for comprehensive biomarker testing. Learn more about what's going on where you live and across the nation.
Teri Bedard, RT(R)(T), CPC, shares her highlights of the calendar year 2023 MPFS proposed rule and its potential impact on oncology/hematology.
ACCC Director Cancer Care Delivery and Health Policy Matt Devino, MPH, lays out the four key differences between the OCM and EOM that interested applicants need to consider.
From January 24 to 28, 2022, ACCC co-sponsored Health Care Value Week—a series of virtual events supporting the advancement of value-based care.
With total spending on U.S. cancer care projected to rise 34 percent from 2015-2030 to $245 billion, biosimilars can play a role in helping reduce those costs. Learn how Biden’s executive order on promoting competition in the American economy will require the FDA's biosimilars approval framework to be clearer and easier to follow.
On Aug. 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2021 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rules.
“In this town, we’ve seen healthcare become a political lightning rod,” U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) told attendees on March 5 at the ACCC 46th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center Business Summit (AMCCBS) in Washington, D.C. As our nation grapples with unprecedented challenges—both individually and collectively—posed by the world-wide novel COVID-19 outbreak, it seems as though lightning has …
As we begin 2020 and an election year, drug pricing is center stage in healthcare politics.
Friday, Nov. 1 was a busy day for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its Center for the Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). CMS released the final calendar year (CY) 2020 Hospital Outpatient Prospective System and Physician Fee Schedule final rules. Later that afternoon, CMMI posted an “informal” Request for Information on a proposal for the next iteration of an …
On Sept. 27, ACCC provided comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the agency’s proposed CY 2020 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rules.
For nearly 30 years, TOPS has served oncologists and patients in Tennessee. The organization has focused primarily on issues related to the delivery of the highest quality cancer care, while also working to deter threats to the viability of the community practice model.
At the end of last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the much-anticipated calendar year (CY) 2020 Medicare Payment rules. Touted by CMS as an effort to “empower patients with price transparency and increase competition to lower costs for Medicare beneficiaries,” the proposed Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rule for 2020 introduces new price transparency …
The future of healthcare is at a crossroads. In the past year, the Trump Administration and Congress have made several proposals to address the rising costs of healthcare and drugs­, which have the potential to dramatically affect the landscape of cancer care. Now more than ever, the voices of professionals on the front lines of cancer care are crucial to shaping the direction of future …
Make Your Voice Heard at ACCC Capitol Hill Day BY BLAIR BURNETT Every two years American voters go to the polls to participate in national elections. This fall’s mid-term elections resulted in a major paradigm shift and an entirely different congressional class. With this shake-up in Washington, D.C., new voices are demanding to be heard. Make yours one of them. Each year, in conjunction …
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 …
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 …
As policymakers seek legislative solutions to the opioid crisis, it is imperative to recognize that broad opioid bills that do not specifically address the issue of different types of pain run the risk of harming our vulnerable cancer patient population in terms of adequately treating cancer-related pain.
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