Medicare Proposal to Cover Advance Care Planning Conversations Marks an Important Step toward Patient-Centered Care
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced plans to support Medicare beneficiaries by reimbursing doctors for advance care planning beginning in January 2016. The proposed codes would reimburse for discussions about an individual’s wishes, should he or she becomes too ill to make decisions, and for ...
Journey Forward and ERS Advance Survivorship Care Planning Through Data Integration
Data integration solution addresses one of the barriers associated with creating Care Plans for cancer survivors Journey Forward, a leader in survivorship care planning, and Electronic Registry Services (ERS), a leading provider of cancer registry software, today announced a successful implementation that enhances the use of patient data in after-care ...
WCOE: Shared Decision-Making and Getting Doctors to Listen
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Components of shared decision-making. #CTACSummit2015 pic.twitter.com/1yjm5MSwDC— Shelley Fuld Nasso (@sfuldnasso) March 3, 2015 Public meeting on breast cancer patient-focused drug dev. April 2, register now https://t.co/1OXRCdQvZM— NCCS - National Coalition for Cancer ...
Guest Post from The Cancer Support Community: Progress Made in Addressing the Psychosocial Needs of People Diagnosed with Cancer
This guest post is part of the 2015 Cancer Policy Matters "The Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care: 20 Years Later" blog series. Although noted in the literature as early as the 1970’s, serving as the foundation for the 1982 establishment of The Wellness Community (now The Cancer Support Community) and certainly ...
We’re Going Digital: Last Week to Order Cancer Survival Toolbox – Blood Cancer Programs in Audio CD
TIME’S RUNNING OUT: Cancer Survival Toolbox – Blood Cancer Programs – Free Shipping on Bulk Audio CD Orders The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) is pleased to announce that the Cancer Survival Toolbox© is going fully digital! If you would like to order any audio CDs of the following ...
WCOE: Comparing Health Plans, Motivating Change in Clinical Practice, the Sunshine Act, and Clinical Trials Protocols
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Charles Ornstein, Lena Groeger and Ryann Grochowski Jones from ProPublica analyzed changes in plans under the Affordable Care Act (“Big Changes in Fine Print of Some 2015 ...
An Updated Survivorship Care Planning Template and Identifying Barriers to Implementation
Recently, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) released an updated cancer survivorship care planning (SCP) template—news that was captured by several medical online news outlets including Healio, Medscape, and Cancer.net. Survivorship care planning is a process of cancer care delivery that NCCS has advocated for over the last 20 ...
Two Free Apps Help Manage Cancer Symptoms and Coordinate Care
Two new free mobile apps help people facing cancer to better manage the disease by learning how to deal with certain symptoms, and coordinate their care after cancer treatment has ended. Self-Care During Cancer Treatment is an app provided by Empowerment and Action for Cancer Care, an alliance between WellPoint ...
Incremental Improvements Are Not Enough
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 ...
NCCS and CLC Policy Comments: 2015 Physician Fee Schedule
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 ...
