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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.

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.

As we begin 2020 and an election year, drug pricing is center stage in healthcare politics.

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.

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 …

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.

The last few months have brought big changes to Washington, D.C. The 2014 midterm elections dealt a sweeping victory to Republicans in Congress, giving the party a 54-seat majority in the Senate and its biggest majority in the House since 1928.

In 2016, we saw the Obama Administration finalize regulations around sweeping physician payment reform in Medicare, oncology practices nationwide navigate the first year of the Oncology Care Model (OCM), policymakers try—and fail—to push through drug pricing reform with a national mandatory demonstration program, the 21st Century Cures Act signed into law, and the drug pricing debate hit a fever …