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ROCKVILLE, Md. – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its much anticipated Part B Drug Payment Model yesterday, which proposes to change the way Medicare pays for Part B drugs through a national mandatory program. The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is deeply concerned this experiment will have a detrimental impact on patients and their access to high …

Rockville, Md. – ACCC applauds the 92 Senators and 392 House members who voted “yes” on H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. This bipartisan, bicameral compromise took remarkable leadership on both sides of the aisle and finally provides physicians with the predictable, appropriate payments they need to continue to provide high-quality cancer care. "Last night’s historic …

ROCKVILLE, Md. – Last week the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its much-anticipated Oncology Care Model (OCM), a new voluntary program for physician–led practices to test the bundling of payments for chemotherapy administration. The OCM is the second specialty care model to be announced at CMMI, and the first in …

ROCKVILLE, Md. – The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is troubled by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) decision this week to release information related to physician payments from the Medicare program. ACCC fully supports transparency in healthcare and has long advocated for patient access to quality comprehensive cancer care. However, CMS’s release of these …