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Two years ago, the world lost an extraordinary person, my dear friend Dr. Brent Whitworth. He was a few days shy of his 42nd birthday when he learned of his diagnosis – stage IV kidney cancer – and he was devastated. He had surgery at a major cancer hospital and then entered a clinical trial […]
In a Health Affairs blog post entitled, “Reconceptualizing Health and Health Care: Why Our Cancer Care Delivery System Is In Crisis,” Carolyn Payne and William Dale suggest that the health care system should look at patients more holistically, rather than focus on a single disease such as cancer. They cite last year’s report by the […]
As a cancer survivor and nurse educator, I am always interested in how we can advocate for the care of cancer patients and recommend policy changes. Recently, I had the occasion to experience the impact a nurse navigator can have in assisting patients. Patient navigation is a program designed to provide patients with a map […]
Are we finally ready to address the repeated recommendations in these series of reports and to make it possible for our healthcare system, providers of care, and our religious leaders to be more ready to assist people in making difficult decisions about how to die well? One of the articles that caught our eye this […]
Click here to view all of NCCS’ policy comments. Recently, NCCS submitted comments to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on its proposed Oncology Care Model (OCM), an episode-based payment model that emphasizes care planning and coordination and cancer care system transformation. The OCM represents an important step forward in encouraging patient-centered cancer care, […]
Recently, NCCS joined colleagues in the Cancer Leadership Council (CLC) in submitting comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, which governs payments to physicians for services provided to Medicare patients. NCCS and the CLC have applauded efforts by CMS to strengthen care planning and coordination through […]
In The New York Times article, “Coverage for End-of-Life Talks Gaining Ground,” Pam Belluck writes about efforts to reimburse physicians for having difficult but critically important discussions with patients about the kind of care they wish to receive at the end of life. “Five years after it exploded into a political conflagration over ‘death panels,’ […]
In Elana Gordon’s segment with NPR titled, “Hello, May I Help You Plan Your Final Months?” she reports on the work of Vital Decisions, a company that provides counseling via phone to beneficiaries of participating insurance companies in efforts to facilitate discussions about end-of-life care. Counselors often cold-call patients after attempts to reach them via postal […]
Several articles caught our eye this week about the complexities of our reimbursement system and the lack of incentives in our current system for the kind of care patients value and need – time with their physicians and help in coordinating their care among providers in a fragmented system. Coordinating care for people with cancer and […]
Emily Lee, a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress (CAP), spoke to us at the NCCS Cancer Policy Roundtable in April of 2014. Lee was a speaker on a panel titled “Bundles or Episodes of Care: Are These Payment Models Workable for Cancer Care?” which discussed the development of models for cancer care […]
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