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Independent oncology is critical to our healthcare system. Help independent oncology stay off the “endangered species” list by supporting adoption of new digital technologies.
Philanthropy is a way to start supportive care programs and other needed services.
In 2021, CMS made significant changes to how evaluation and management (E/M) visits are coded and billed in the office and outpatient setting, updating a number of its transmittals to include new clarifications about several E/M-related activities.
The Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) for calendar year 2022.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the American Medical Association's (AMA's) finalized coding updates for calendar year 2022.
Spiritual care providers support the religious and spiritual needs of patients and their caregivers.
If enacted, patients with cancer across the country will benefit from increased access and new fiscal protections, including universal paid family leave.
The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year 2022.
Regardless of the reason, the ability to bill for discontinued services will depend on why the service had to be stopped and how it was addressed.
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.
As the United States healthcare system moves to value-based and bundled payments under alternative payment models, it is now more important than ever for cancer programs and practices to quantitatively and qualitatively measure to show the value that supportive cancer care services bring to patients.
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
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.
10 accc-cancer.org | Vol. 36, No. 3, 2021 | OI patients with a healthy support system in place or those who receive health behavioral services tend to do better and experience better outcomes. A 2019 article published in BMC Psychiatry found that the incidence of psychological disorders in patients with cancer is very high, somewhere between 30 and 60 percent.1 The most encountered problems …
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.
One of the many lessons we learned in 2020 was that anything can happen and if it was related to regulatory changes, it was likely to change or be delayed, and 2021 has not disappointed.
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.
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.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the American Medical Association finalized its coding updates for CY 2021.
On Dec. 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS) issued the final rule for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for CY 2021.
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