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NCCS Recommends Making COVID-19 Medicare Telehealth Coverage Expansion Permanent

October 8, 2020/in CMS, HHS, NCCS News, Policy Comments Doctor-Patient Communication, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News, Policy Comments /by NCCS Staff

NCCS recently submitted a comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) regarding the Medicare physician fee schedule for calendar year 2021. The comment letter focuses on telehealth-related provisions of the proposed rule, as we are learning from our findings from our Telehealth Project that both patients and providers need more tools and […]

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NCCS Project Aims to Gain Cancer Survivors’ Insights on Telehealth

May 22, 2020/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog, NCCS News Clinical Guidelines, Doctor-Patient Communication, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

This month, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) launched a project to identify and share cancer patients’ and survivors’ perspectives on telehealth in cancer care. Regulatory, societal and practice changes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have led to an increased use of telehealth, including in various aspects of cancer care. In this rapidly changing […]

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A Medical School Perspective: Beyond the Science, We Must Learn to Communicate with Patients

July 16, 2018/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Doctor-Patient Communication, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care, Shared Decision-Making, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

By Nainika Nanda, MD — Survivorship. What does this mean? Oncology highlights patients currently battling cancer. However, survivorship encompasses a longer timeline. Cancer requires lifelong care, which is achieved through proper doctor-patient communication. In fact, this relationship is a keystone of medicine. Unfortunately, it can lose focus in the sea of information medical students must master. A common analogy for medical education is […]

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What Caught Our Eye: ACA Analysis/Debate, Doc/Patient Communication, Universal Cancer Care, Financial Toxicity, Palliative Care Pain Studies

February 10, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Doctor-Patient Communication, Financial Toxicity, Health Equity, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

As the repeal and replace debate continues in Washington, the Brookings Institution spearheaded a study to look at what is and isn’t working with the Affordable Care Act. Their look at five states who implemented the ACA in various ways is informative to help inform where we go from here.

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NCCS’ Paper on Oncologist-Patient Communication Published in Evidence-Based Oncology Journal

October 25, 2016/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog, NCCS News Care Planning, Doctor-Patient Communication, Quality Cancer Care, Shared Decision-Making, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

Earlier this year, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) conducted focus groups with patients and oncologists to gain insight into this critical relationship, hear what patients and physicians consider good communication, and determine what strategies could improve effective communication. An article describing the learnings from the focus groups was published in the October 2016 […]

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The Birth of the Cancer Survivorship Movement and How It Transformed Cancer Care for Millions

March 25, 2021
Guest Post by Judith L. Pearson Best-Selling Author of From Shadows to Life: A Biography…
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Biden Rescinds Trump Admin Proposal to Limit Medicare Part D Coverage of Drugs in “Six Protected Classes”

March 19, 2021
This week, the Biden administration rescinded a Trump administration-proposed plan…
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NCCS Recommends That States Allocate COVID-19 Vaccines to Cancer Care Providers

March 1, 2021
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) and the Cancer Leadership Council…
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    • 2020 State of Cancer Survivorship Survey
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  • Get Involved
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Harmar Brereton, MD

Founder
Northeast Regional Cancer Institute

 

“Perhaps one of the most impactful collaborations in Dr. Brereton’s extraordinary career remains his early work and long friendship with Ellen Stovall. Through him, and in turn through the thousands of lives he has touched, Ellen’s work continues, and her mission lives on.”

—Karen M. Saunders
President, Northeast Regional Cancer Institute