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The ACCC Patient Assistance & Reimbursement Guide is an interactive and fully digital tool, patients, health care providers and members of the multidisciplinary oncology care team can access to help find and apply for financial assistance.
As in other areas of the country, COVID-19 surges during the past two years have led to the cancellation, postponement, or downsizing of planned community outreach and screening events at Munson Healthcare in Michigan. Oncologists at Munson think it’s likely that northern Michigan will see an increase in late-stage cancer cases as a result.
To obtain an on-the-ground perspective of how cancer programs’ screening and outreach education efforts are reacting to pandemic pressures, ACCCBuzz spoke to four cancer programs across the country that will be featured in four separate blog posts in January 2022. For the first blog in the series, we spoke to Renea Duffin, MPA, vice president of cancer support and outreach at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer …
EMMC Cancer Care found that a real-time location system not only helped staff communicate the status of patients, it also streamlined patient flow through the facility, improving staff efficiency, reducing wait times, and enhancing patient safety—ultimately optimizing the patient experience.
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center shares how auricular acupuncture, a safe, feasible, and cost-effective therapy, that stimulates points on the ear, can reduce the pain and psychological distress experienced by patients with cancer.
The summit brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to explore practical ways to strengthen and diversify oncology clinical trials.
Day 4 of the ACCC 37th [Virtual] National Oncology Conference gave participants the opportunity to connect directly with this year’s ACCC Innovator Award winners and their physician and/or administrative champions. These leaders shared with conference attendees what led them to support their innovations, how they procured the necessary buy-in and resources to implement those innovations, and what their …
Rockville, MD – The treatment of patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) has shifted substantially in the past five years from intravenous treatments (IV) to oral oncolytics. With this transition towards oral therapies, cancer care teams face different challenges such as medication adherence, polypharmacy, financial toxicity, and interruptions in continuity of care due to oral prescriptions …
What distinguishes ACCC members is not only their commitment to action in the service of delivering quality cancer care, but their willingness to share their experiences with others.
Although the Trump administration has maintained a steady drumbeat on pharmaceutical pricing in recent months, promising lower costs for patients and less spending for the government, it wasn’t until late summer that we started to see what this White House had in mind.
Lee E. Mortenson, DPA, MPA, MS The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) and the Oncology State Society Network (OSSN) mourn the loss of founding Executive Director Lee E. Mortenson, DPA, MPA, MS. After a brief battle with non-small cell lung cancer, Dr. Mortenson passed away on December 3, 2018, at his home in Tucson, Arizona, surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife Carol, daughter …
A key element in this design is the ability for patients to personalize their surroundings with lighting and other aesthetic features, giving patients an increased sense of control over their environment.
As reimbursement continues to shrink through bundling, packaging, service consolidation, and other changes to insurance payment systems, many providers are training staff to collect coinsurance, deductibles, co-payments, and other patient cost-shares at the time of service.
With increasing approvals of new immunotherapy agents and new indications for existing agents, more cancer patients are receiving immunotherapy in the community. Coordinated management of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) for these patients remains a growing challenge.
Learn how Advocate-Aurora Lutheran General Hospital, Ill., modified an unused space in its inpatient oncology unit to create an outpatient oncology symptom management treatment area. The program now sees cancer patients outside of traditional office hours, thereby reducing ED visits and hospitalizations.
The Gwinnett Medical Center Breast Program Leadership Team saw an opportunity to create a more comprehensive diagnostic care pathway to include more timely results to breast biopsy patients, streamlined access to treatment specialists, and improved processes and communication with referring physicians.
In 2020, medical experts warned that COVID-19 could, over time, have a substantial impact on cancer outcomes due to delayed or missed cancer screenings for patients. To obtain a better perspective of how cancer programs’ screening and outreach education efforts are recovering from pandemic pressures, ACCCBuzz spoke to four cancer programs across the country.