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Many patients with cancer now enjoy the invaluable benefits and flexibilities that telehealth makes possible. Patients have more convenient access to appointments, increased support from family caregivers who can attend virtual visits, and more time to focus on their work and families. Olalekan Ajayi, PharmD, MBA explains how the Telehealth Modernization Act can make this expanded healthcare access …
At the risk of repeating a phrase that has been exhausted this year, the dawn of 2020 brought with it unprecedented times. Whereas a pandemic on its own would have dominated everything else, this year also brought on an economic depression; a racial awakening; record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes, and floods; political turmoil on an extraordinary scale; and a host of additional unique phenomena. …
By Christian G. Downs, JD, MHA On August 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rules. The agency also released an accompanying executive order proposing increased flexibility for telehealth and rural healthcare in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. CMS is waiving …
By Teri Bedard, BA, RT(R)(T), CPC On April 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a second Interim Final Rule in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This ruling adds to and changes many of the recent expansions and waivers of the provisions previously outlined by CMS since the Public Health Emergency (PHE) was initiated. The CMS Interim Final Rule 2 is located in its …
On April 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a second Interim Final Rule—COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers—in response to the coronavirus pandemic. This Rule adds to and changes many of the recent telehealth coverage expansions with waivers of the provisions previously outlined by CMS in the wake of the declared Public Health …
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.
If enacted, patients with cancer across the country will benefit from increased access and new fiscal protections, including universal paid family leave.
In my new role at ACCC as senior director, cancer care delivery and health policy, I am excited to take over writing this bimonthly column and communicating to our multidisciplinary membership about pertinent workforce, reimbursement, and cancer care delivery issues.
The 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed the following changes specific to telehealth.
Over the last several months, ACCC members have experienced a rising trend of payer-mandated white and brown bagging. ACCC will continue to monitor and update members about issues related to white and brown bagging.
ACCC, along with other stakeholders, signed a letter of support for legislation to recognize certified genetic counselors as healthcare providers, giving beneficiaries improved access to these services.
The Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) for calendar year 2022.
Providers and staff at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, along with published literature, report that patients want to receive their therapies in the outpatient setting when possible
There has been a flurry of activity from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health and Human Services, and Health Resources and Services Administration, including the release of the CMS calendar year (CY) 2022 proposed rules for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System. Below is a summary of how these notifications may impact oncology.
On Dec. 2, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rules for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS or OPPS) for CY 2021.