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Free comprehensive online training for oncology financial advocates Rockville, Md. — The cost of cancer care continues to be a top concern for patients and their healthcare providers. In response, the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) has launched The Financial Advocacy Boot Camp, the first free online training program designed for all those who work to assist cancer patients in navigating …
Survey to Explore Issues Affecting Care Providers, Patients and Programs Rockville, MD—Building on the success of last year’s collaboration, the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) and Advisory Board’s Oncology Roundtable are again conducting a comprehensive survey that will explore how cancer programs across the country are moving forward and adapting in the midst of exciting, increasingly …
Rockville, MD—To support quality improvement (QI) projects in colorectal cancer, the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) has joined with Pfizer Global Medical Grants to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) with the intent of funding QI initiatives that focus on the integration of biomarker testing into the treatment planning for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). The RFP seeks …
Upon opening ACCC’s first Metastatic Breast Cancer Summit in Washington, D.C., ACCC Executive Director Christian G. Downs, MHA, JD, remarked, “Everyone knows what we have to do; it’s more difficult to know how to do it. Today is the ‘how to’ part.” The summit was held on October 7, 2019. The “what,” said Downs, are the largely agreed-upon goals that must be realized before all patients with metastatic …
The Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) for calendar year 2022.
While financial navigation programs ease the burden of financial toxicity on patients with cancer and help healthcare organizations with revenue loss, the manual nature of the process is challenging for navigators and financial advocates. Cowell Family Cancer Center piloted a financial navigation software program to analyze the effects of automation on productivity, workflow, and organizational …
In 2016, the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) initiated a three-year multiphase project to develop an Optimal Care Coordination Model (OCCM) for Medicaid patients with lung cancer that would help assess and strengthen care delivery systems by facilitating and expanding access to multidisciplinary coordinated care.
Being aware of how burnout manifests itself can help supervisors and staff identify the condition early.
Similar to the construction projects in our nation’s capital, many cancer programs around the country are also in a construction mode. Maybe not bricks and mortar, but working on their programs to improve the delivery of care to their patients
Presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program
Discover the role of place of service codes in oncology billing.
In the Department of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina North Carolina Cancer Hospital, discarding partial drug vials was a significant source of waste. With their Innovator Award–winning drug vial optimization program, the program maximized the lifespan of drugs within single-dose vials and realized an annual cost savings of more than $40 million.
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• Identify and address challenges in providing care for underserved populations; • Evaluate patient and provider perceptions regarding equity in access to care; • Implement patient-centered approaches to increase guideline-concordant cancer screening among underserved populations; • Develop interventions for promoting guideline-concordant treatment for underserved populations; • Implement …
It is no surprise to financial advocates that accessing treatment cost assistance for radiation oncology patients is a major challenge. In response, ACCC’s Financial Advocacy Network held two small-group coffee chats to assist its members in identifying and addressing barriers to financial support for patients receiving radiation therapy.
With projects that address acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), B-Cell ALL, and hematology disease education, ACCC is developing new resources for cancer programs and practices that focus on multidisciplinary approaches to caring for patients with blood cancer.
The only standard treatments for metastatic melanoma that have been associated with long-term overall survival (OS) are surgical resection, and immunotherapies that include the immune-stimulating cytokine interleukin-2 (IL2), the anticytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) monoclonal antibody ipilimumab, and the anti-programmed death 1 (PD1) monoclonal antibodies nivolumab and pembrolizumab (aka …
In this article, we describe patients’ perspectives on participation in CCDR studies based on feedback and comments received from patients during our research. Insights reveal the importance and enthusiasm for CCDR studies expressed by patients, and their perspectives on these studies will inform future research and clinical practice toward high quality, patient-centered care delivery.
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