WCOE: Challenges of Care Coordination in a Fragmented Health Care System
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. 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 ...
WCOE: Different Treatment Options Require Consideration of Patient Preferences, and What We Can Learn from Price Transparency in Veterinary Medicine
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. 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 ...
WCOE: Making Hard Choices and the Impact of Price Transparency
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Some physicians are reluctant to answer the question, “What would you do if you were in my shoes?” In “Living with Cancer: Difficult Choices,” another installment in ...
WCOE: Improving Quality for Patients by Delivering and Paying for Care Differently
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. “We need to change the way we pay for cancer care and almost every other type of care in this country.” In two America Tonight segments entitled, ...
WCOE: Planning for Hospice, Difficult Conversations, and Second Opinions
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. As avid followers of Susan Gubar’s series in The New York Times on living with cancer, we read her most recent installment, “Living with Cancer: A Tour of Hospice” ...
WCOE: UnitedHealthcare’s Expanded Participation and Consumer Understanding of Insurance Basics
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Many new insured individuals under the Affordable Care Act do not understand their plans. In “Biggest Insurer Drops Caution, Embraces Obamacare,” Jay Hancock of Kaiser Health News ...
WCOE: Discussions About the Costs of Care and How We Pay for Cancer Treatment
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. NCCS has been closely monitoring payment reform for many years, and will continue to work towards fostering a patient-centered cancer care system that is affordable and accessible ...
WCOE: Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Challenges and an ACA Progress Report
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. A PBS Newshour segment, “Pediatric Cancer Survivors Face a Lifetime of Health Challenges,” discusses the late effects and potential secondary cancers that survivors of pediatric cancers face ...
WCOE: Childhood Cancer Action Day, NCCS Provides Patient Perspective at IOM Workshop, and Pre-Hospice Program Report
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. It is unfortunate that our current system and incentives focus on volume, rather than patients’ health and well-being. In a blog post on The Hill, Stephen Crowley ...
WCOE: Moving Towards Quality Cancer Care and Remembering an Advocate
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. This week NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso and Senior Health Policy Advisor Ellen Stovall presented in separate sessions at the Seventh Biennial Cancer Survivorship Research Conference. Shelley ...
