PolitiFact Evaluates Obama-Biden Promise to Increase Participation in Cancer-Related Clinical Trials
In 2008, Barack Obama promised to increase patients' access to clinical trials for new drugs by requiring coverage of patient clinical trial costs in the new public and private plans offered through the National Health Insurance Exchange. PolitiFact spoke with several patient advocates, including Shelley Fuld Nasso, a health policy consultant ...
Shared Decision Making to Improve Care and Reduce Costs
In a New England Journal of Medicine January 3, 2013 article, Emily Oshima Lee and Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel discuss the potential for shared decision making to improve the quality of care patients receive and potentially reduce costs. The authors suggest that a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...
NCCS Files Comments on Proposed Rule Setting Standards Related to Essential Health Benefits, Actuarial Value, and Accreditation
The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius Secretary Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Re: CMS-9980-P, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Standards Related to Essential Health Benefits, Actuarial Value, and Accreditation Dear Secretary Sebelius: The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) appreciates the opportunity to ...
Cancer Leadership Council Comments on Essential Health Benefits
On December 26, 2012 the Cancer Leadership Council, a patient-centered forum of national advocacy organizations addressing public policy issues in cancer, filed comments on Essential Health Benefits. The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship was one of 16 organizations representing cancer patients, physicians, researchers, and caregivers signing on to the comments. The comments ...
Department of Health and Human Services Releases Proposed Rules for Affordable Care Act, NCCS to Analyze
On Tuesday, November 20, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services released proposed rules on several key elements of the Affordable Care Act. The proposed rules address: 1) the operation of the health insurance exchanges and the definition of essential health benefits to be included in plans offered through ...
NCCS updates two long-standing publications; begins offering Cancer Survival Toolbox End of Life program as a standalone
NCCS has recently updated two of its long-standing publications: one that addresses employment rights as a cancer survivor and the other that helps cancer patients understand and define their health insurance options and rights. The organization has also recognized that during the final stage of survivorship, having important discussions and making ...
NCCS sponsors IOM study to demographic issues in quality of cancer care
NCCS, along with 11 other organizations sponsored an Institute of Medicine (IOM) consensus study: Improving the Quality of Cancer Care: Addressing the Challenges of an Aging Population. On May 21, 2012, the committee began to examine issues in the quality of cancer care with a specific focus on the demographic changes ...
NCCS applauds the Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS), a national organization representing survivors of all types of cancer, commends the Supreme Court for affirming the constitutionality of the primary provisions of the Affordable Care Act. “Many cancer survivors struggle to get timely, high-quality care that they can afford, and the Affordable ...
Band-aids for the health law
White House officials say they are confident the Supreme Court will uphold the health-care law, but they also are preparing for a range of outcomes, including pressing ahead with what remains of the law if the court strikes down only part of it. Republicans, meanwhile, are preparing a two-step approach ...
NCCS continues support of the minimum coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court began three days of arguments in the historic case on the constitutionality of the national health reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—often referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Just over two years after being signed into law by President Obama, ...
