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Presented at the 2019 ASCO Quality Care Symposium in San Diego, CA.
The Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) is one of the Medicare payment systems that applies to facility-based settings, which include, hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), critical access hospitals (CAHs) and excepted off-campus provider-based departments.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated risks for patients with cancer, all Life with Cancer programming was cancelled on Mar. 12, 2020. Staff, struggling with their own anxiety over personal safety, quickly went into action on how best to continue to meet the psychological and educational needs of patients and families.
In the dynamic, everchanging world of oncology, developing the strength of the multidisciplinary care team is paramount.
Exercise has been demonstrated to alleviate the effects of cancer-related fatigue, but patients with cancer may not understand the true scope of its benefits. Mount Sinai Downtown Cancer Centers created a quality improvement (QI) initiative to provide psycho-education on exercise during initial radiation treatments and throughout treatments.
In the summer of 2014 staff at the Novant Health Derrick L. Davis Cancer Center (NHDLD Cancer Center), Winston-Salem, N.C., developed a screening method aimed at detecting women in our community who are at increased risk for breast cancer.
Because of its growing retirement-age population and its unique location on a barrier island, The Outer Banks Hospital saw patients with lung cancer presenting at too late a stage for curative treatment. Learn how the hospital created an LDCT program and partnered with local providers and community cancer centers to identify patients with lung cancer at an earlier stage.
In CY 2017, outpatient hospital payment rates will increase by 1.7 percent and CMS will continue the statutory 2.0 percentage point reduction in payments for hospitals that fail to meet the hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program requirements.
ACCC is developing an educational program titled, “Empowering Caregivers,” that will foster discussions on how to ease caregiver burden and address issues related to caregiver supports.
Featured Social Worker Programs Patient-Centered Care for Older Adults with Cancer Addressing the unique needs of older adults with cancer is critical for the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care. ACCC’s Multidisciplinary Approaches to Caring for Geriatric Patients with Cancer project shares information on how to integrate geriatric screening and assessment into practice, resources and …
PowerPoint Presentation 3% 13% 13% 1% 1% 1% 2% 5% 5% 8% 19% 31% Unknown Other - non HCPs Other Clinical Social Worker BA/BS MPH/DPH/DrPH PhD PharmD/RPh Administration/Executive NP/PA RN Physician Learner Degrees: Learner Specialties: US Learners by Region: Educating The Multispecialty Team on Molecular Testing …
The Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS or OPPS) is not intended to be a fee schedule, in which separate payment is made for each coded line item. Instead, the OPPS is currently a prospective payment system that packages some items and services, but not others.
ACCC conducted a national multi-phase effort to provide guidance on key issues related to the optimization of care for patients diagnosed with Stages III and IV NSCLC.
The 2020 Trending Now in Cancer Care Survey marks the eleventh year of an annual ACCC survey designed to identify current and emerging trends across U.S. cancer programs.
ACCC IV and Oral Combination Regimen Survey Combination therapy is a treatment modality that combines two or more drugs, and it has become a cornerstone of cancer treatment. Combination regimens can decrease the risk of a tumor becoming drug-resistant, increase the chances of eliminating cancers by targeting several cancer growth processes simultaneously, and, in some cases, improve survival. But …
Hereditary prostate cancers account for about 5%-10% of all prostate cancers and approximately 1 in 8 men will receive a prostate cancer diagnosis in their lifetime.1 Advancements in the genetics of prostate cancer have shown that the presence of key germline mutations is associated with a higher risk of developing prostate cancer and the cancers associated with these mutations tend to be more …
Research topics include identifying health disparities in precision medicine, delivery of quality advanced ovarian and non-small cell lung (NSCLC) cancer care, programmatic evaluation of geriatric cancer care, and the creation of a self-guided training program for oncology financial advocates.
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Cone Health System, Cone Health Cancer Center Greensboro, North Carolina The Study of High Cost Oncology Patients to Improve Care and Curb Costs Discover how Cone Health Cancer Center analyzed Medicare data to locate their “hot-spotters”—chronically ill, high-cost, super-users of healthcare services—assess gaps in care and opportunities to improve, while curbing costs. See how their data justified …
We sat down with ACCC President Krista Nelson, on how her personal experiences during the pandemic—and those of her colleagues and patients—deeply impacted her and influenced the development of her 2021-2022 ACCC President’s Theme.