What Caught Our Eye: ‘Extremely High Premiums’ for the Sick, AHCA News, FDA Aims to Control Rx Pricing, & More
What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Via Kaiser Health News — "The Republican overhaul of the federal health law passed by the House this month would result in slightly lower premiums and slightly ...
WCOE: Financial Issues Increase Pain, Ovarian Cancer Overlooked, Helping Patients Sleep, Colon Cancer Facts, and Missing Radiation Sessions
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Sad (terrible!) and true, evidently: For Cancer Patients, Pain May Rise as Finances Dwindle - https://t.co/aORJocqABQ via @phillyhealthsci— Elaine Schattner MD, MA (@ESchattner) March 1, 2016 Experts find that #OvarianCancer ...
WCOE: Effects of Financial Toxicity, Patient Database Helps Researchers Nationally, New CLRC Handbook for Survivors, Metastatic Cancer and Employment
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. #FinancialToxicity and high #costs of care create an undue physical & emotional burden on #cancer #survivors: https://t.co/5TecXglJjC— NCCS - National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) February 17, 2016 Ohio State-led ...
NCCS Joins Other Advocates in Endorsing Bipartisan Medical Debt Relief Act of 2015
This week NCCS joined a diverse group of advocacy groups in endorsing the bipartisan Medical Debt Relief Act of 2015 (H.R. 2362). Medical debts can remain on patients’ credit scores for up to seven years, even after they have been paid or settled, lowering his or her credit score and ...
