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WCOE: Paying Doctors to Talk About End-of-Life Care

September 5, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Care Coordination, Care Planning, Health Care Coverage, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

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,’ […]

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WCOE: Patient Empowerment in Discussing End-of-Life Care

August 29, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Care Planning, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

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 […]

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WCOE: Challenges of Care Coordination in a Fragmented Health Care System

August 22, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Coordination, Care Planning, Health Care Coverage, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News

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 […]

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The Difficult Question of When to Stop Treatment

August 15, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News

Yesterday, I stumbled across the Twitter chat #whentostop, hosted by the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS), addressing one of the most difficult questions anyone with cancer has to face: when is it time to stop treatment? I am new to Twitter chats, though I have lurked during the Healthcare Leader (#hcldr) and the Breast Cancer Social Media (#bcsm) chats and have been impressed […]

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WCOE: Different Treatment Options Require Consideration of Patient Preferences, and What We Can Learn from Price Transparency in Veterinary Medicine

August 15, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

In “Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Varies Widely: Study Raises Questions About Early Treatment Choices,” Dr. Elaine Schattner, contributor to Forbes, directs readers to a recently released study that compares the risk of hospitalization between patients with early-stage breast cancer who received different chemotherapy regimens. The study also presented that the six most commonly administered chemotherapy regimens […]

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Addressing the Gaps in Treatment Planning and Coordination with the PACT Act (H.R. 2477)

August 12, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Care Coordination, Care Planning, Health Care Coverage, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News

Recently we were reminded of the importance of the Planning Actively for Cancer Treatment (PACT) Act, H.R. 2477 as we participated in the Lymphoma Research Foundation’s (LRF) Lymphoma Education and Advocacy Partners (LEAP) webinar focused on survivorship and care coordination. NCCS has identified the PACT Act as one of our primary public policy priorities as […]

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WCOE: Making Hard Choices and the Impact of Price Transparency

August 8, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Care Planning, Clinical Guidelines, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

In “Living with Cancer: Difficult Choices,” another installment in her series in The New York Times, Susan Gubar writes about the difficulty of deciding between treatment options when there is no obvious answer. Even patients who have a strong understanding of their disease may lack the expertise to evaluate different options, particularly when the options […]

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Reinventing Patient-Centered Cancer Care Brookings Institute “MEDTalk”

July 10, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Care Coordination, Care Planning, Clinical Trials, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News

On Wednesday, as part of the Merkin Series on Innovation in Care Delivery, the Brookings Institute held an event in their new MEDTalk format titled, Reinventing Patient-Centered Cancer Care. The MEDTalk event follows the popular TED Talk format, and it was designed to feature several short presentations that considered the challenges of delivering oncology care while enhancing the patient experience, […]

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WCOE: Patient-Centered Care, “The Fault in Our Stars” and Genetic Data

June 13, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Care Planning, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

Three articles caught our eye at NCCS this week.  The one that raises the most questions for us in terms of policy development is from our friend, Amy Abernathy, appearing as a blog post for the June 10th issue of The Hill. Her argument in support of patient-centered care is something we have advocated for […]

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Meeting Consumer Expectations and Health Needs in the New Health Insurance Exchanges

June 12, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Coordination, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

Cancer Policy Matters Guest Post by Tanisha Carino, Executive Vice President, Avalere Health The Affordable Care Act provides an unprecedented opportunity for millions to gain coverage through the exchange marketplace by enrolling in a qualified health plan (QHP) that covers essential health benefits and limits financial exposure to excessive out-of-pocket costs. More than 8 million […]

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