Roberta Albany: On a Mission to Educate the Black and Brown Cancer Communities
“I'm beautiful. I'm blessed, I'm loved, and I'm strong. I'm grateful. I'm victorious. I am a warrior. I am a survivor – but, more importantly, I am enough in Jesus’ name. Amen,” Roberta Albany says when she’s feeling down, depressed, or not like her confident self before her breast cancer ...
NCCS Advocate Spotlight: Rebecca Esparza
Advocate Spotlight January 2022 | Rebecca Esparza In August of 2001, 30-year-old Rebecca Esparza noticed her clothes weren’t fitting the way they should. Although she was an avid fan of step aerobics and running, her stomach seemed to be consistently bloated. By September, Rebecca felt the need to make an ...
NCCS Advocate Spotlight: Liza Fues
Advocate Spotlight December 2021 | Liza Fues Liza Fues was 25 years old and a new resident of Dallas, TX, when she discovered a lump in her breast in 1985. Her gynecologist immediately referred her to a breast surgeon, who proceeded with a biopsy. Because Liza was young with no ...
NCCS Pushes for Inclusion of Critical Health Care Provisions in Reconciliation Package
NCCS joined with other advocacy groups in sending letters to congressional leadership supporting the inclusion of several critical provisions in the reconciliation bill that Congress is currently negotiating. Specifically, NCCS expressed support for provisions that would permanently close the Medicaid coverage gap, make the enhanced advance premium tax credits (APTCs) ...
NCCS Comments on CMS-Proposed Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2022
NCCS submitted comments to the Departments of the Treasury and Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) for 2022, the annual rule governing core provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the operation ...
NCCS Joins Coalition Urging Congress to Improve Health Care Coverage Affordability and Access
NCCS joined the Partnership to Protect Coverage coalition in a letter urging Congress to pass legislation to address affordable health insurance premiums, out-of-pocket costs, expand Medicaid, and limit junk insurance plans. The letter was sent to Congressional leaders in both the House and Senate, and the White House and concludes ...
NCCS Recommends That States Allocate COVID-19 Vaccines to Cancer Care Providers
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) and the Cancer Leadership Council (CLC) sent a letter to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to recommend actions to accelerate the vaccination of cancer survivors, who are at risk of poor outcomes from COVID-19. Cancer patients have been confronted by ...
NCCS Joins Patient, Disability, and Health Care Organizations to Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Medicaid and Rule Against Work Requirements
Loss of Patient Protections Would Raise Barriers to Health Insurance — Seventeen patient groups representing millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions filed an amicus curiae (“friend-of-the-court”) brief today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case Texas v. United States, citing the devastating impact patients ...
NCCS and Other Cancer Groups Urge HHS to Keep Six Protected Classes in Medicare Part D Drug Plans
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) joined with the Cancer Leadership Council (CLC) in urging Health and Human Services Secretary-Designate Xavier Becerra to protect Medicare beneficiaries’ access to Part D drugs in six protected classes, which include certain cancer treatments. In January, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...
NCCS, Cancer Groups Urge CMS to Withdraw Most Favored Nation (MFN) Medicare Part B Rule That Will Harm Patients and Reduce Access to Care
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) joined other member organizations of the Cancer Leadership Council (CLC) in a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma, urging “immediate action” by CMS to withdraw an interim final rule that implements a most favored nation (MFN) model ...
