Dr. Ezekiel J Emanuel’s NYT Article “In Health Care, Choice Is Overrated”
In recent months, there has been significant discussion among cancer patients, their physicians and other health care providers, and cancer organizations about the adequacy of the provider networks in their insurance plans. Cancer patients want assurances that they will receive quality care and can seek second opinions from those with ...
NCCS Joins Colleagues in the CLC in Submitting Comments on 2015 Letter to Issuers
This week the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) joined colleagues in the Cancer Leadership Council (CLC)--a coalition that represents cancer patients, health care professionals, and researchers--in submitting comments on several standards for certification of qualified health plans as outlined in the 2015 Letter to Issuers in the Federally-facilitated Marketplace ...
NCCS/AEI Co-Hosted Event to Be Streamed Live
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will co-host a symposium, “Putting the Cancer Patient First: Payment Reform in an Age of Personalized Cancer Care.” Friday, February 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the American Enterprise Institute Conference Center in Washington, DC. For those unable to ...
Empathy in Health Care: Health Affairs Blog Post Highlights Benefits and Obstacles
In a recent post published on the Health Affairs Blog, patient advocate Aubrey Hill writes about the impact of empathy in improving health outcomes. Hill, who draws on her experiences with the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved, explores social and environmental factors that affect health and care, and suggests that the ...
Medicare Payment Reform: A Chance to Advance Patient-Centered Cancer Care
NCCS is following two important policy developments that will impact Medicare payments for physician services. Congress is making early steps to reform Medicare payments for physician services, and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) is seeking public input on refinements in Medicare payments to physician specialists. These steps ...
Study Raises Questions & Choices for Women Screening for Breast Cancer
Several articles published on Tuesday, February 11, reported on a study in the British Medical Journal which finds death rates from breast cancer from all causes were the same in women who got mammograms and those who did not. The articles points out that the screening also had consequential effects when mammograms detected ...
NCCS Responds to Recent Data on Childhood Cancer Survivorship Issues
A recent edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) has attracted our attention for the disturbing statistics it revealed about the issues related to the acceleration of aging among adult survivors of childhood cancer. For 27 years, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) has focused on patient-centered policy ...
NCCS 2013 Quality Cancer Care Timeline of Accomplishments
In 2013, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) represented the patient perspective in national meetings, convened policy experts and thought leaders, submitted comments on federal policies, developed tools to address gaps in cancer care planning, advocated for quality cancer care, and championed legislation that would give Medicare beneficiaries access to ...
NCCS Policy Comments: Rewarding Quality of Care Among Other Measures in SGR Legislative Proposal
NCCS submitted comments to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee on a draft proposal to repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and reform Medicare physician payment system. NCCS commended the committees on developing a bipartisan, bicameral approach that would reward quality of care instead ...
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) ...
