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A holistic Self-Care and Resiliency Program for Oncology Professionals has helped to decrease oncology staff burnout rates. Key components include Patient Remembrance Ceremonies, staff support groups, educational opportunities, and social events.
Oral oncolytic agents have several advantages over the parenteral route, including patient convenience, prolonged drug exposure, and non-invasive administration.
Given the demand for their skills and the competitive market, genetic counselors can afford to be selective in their employment choices. Hospitals and clinics must therefore be creative in their recruiting efforts and offer competitive packages.
F I N A N C I A L A D V O C AC Y N E T W O R K ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY CANCER CENTERS ACCC Financial Advocacy Learning Labs Improving Processes to Better Serve Patients As innovative therapies continue to revolutionize cancer treat- ment, costs for cancer care are rising in tandem, creating a ripple effect of financial burden on patients. Cancer programs and insti- tutions continue …
The coding updates for calendar year (CY) 2020 have been finalized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical association (AMA).
As we begin 2020 and an election year, drug pricing is center stage in healthcare politics.
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.
24 accc-cancer.org | January–February 2020 | OI tools Approved Drugs • On Nov. 14, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to Brukinsa™ (zanubrutinib) (BeiGene, beigene.com) for the treatment of adult patients with mantle cell lymphoma who have received at least one prior therapy. • On Nov. 21, the FDA approved Calquence® (acalabrutinib) …
The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) is one of the Medicare payment systems that applies to physicians (even those employed by hospitals) and non-facility-based settings, which include offices, freestanding facilities, and nonexcepted off-campus provider-based departments. Reimbursement under MPFS is based on relative value units (RVUs) that represent the work, practice expense (direct and …
74 accc-cancer.org | January–February 2020 | OI action AdventHealth Waterman Tavares, Fla. Delegate Rep: Leslie Maxwell Website: adventhealth.com/hospital/adventhealth-waterman System Membership Hawaii Pacific Health System Honolulu, Hawaii Delegate Rep: Elizabeth Wright, DNP, RN, OCN Website: hawaiipacifichealth.org/cancer-centers System Membership Quality Cancer Care Alliance …
A step-by-step guide on how to develop and implement a health system-wide distress screening tool.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final Medicare payment rules for calendar year (CY) 2020 in tandem this year on Nov. 1, 2019.
Firas El Chaer, MD, is a hematology and medical oncology specialist and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center. In addition to specializing in infectious diseases in immunocompromised patients with cancer, Dr. El Chaer focuses on hematologic malignancies and stem cell transplantation. He has also been working on improving the outcomes for …
A total of 144 respondents took this year’s survey, with cancer program administrators representing more than half (53%) and an additional quarter (23%) identifying themselves as cancer program leadership. In the Past 2 Years, to Ensure Financial Sustainability… LIVE POLLING AT THE 2019 ACCC NATIONAL ONCOLOGY CONFERENCE In a follow-up question, almost ¾ said the affiliation, agreement, …
When U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-GA) announced in December 2019 that he had stage IV pancreatic cancer, he faced the disease as he faced his lifelong struggle for civil rights – with incredible courage. “I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now. This month in a routine medical …
Rockville, MD — The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) announces the recent hiring of Colleen Cancio as Director of Development and Strategic Alliances. In her new role, Colleen will work to ensure sustainability for ACCC’s key educational programs and initiatives, with specific emphasis on the organization’s efforts to expand access to clinical trials in oncology and to improve cancer …
How do interest specialists outside the field of oncology in participating in an inter-specialty immune-related adverse events (irAEs) tumor board? Cleveland Clinic discovered the key is to recruit physician champions who are not oncologists.
At Jefferson Health, detecting, diagnosing, and monitoring immune-related adverse events (irAEs) that may results from treatment with immunotherapies for cancer is a group effort. To provide scheduling flexibility and the ability to respond to queries as they arise, the 11-member Jefferson Immuno-Oncology Working groups meets online on an as-needed basis.
Johns Hopkins was one of the first institutions to use immunotherapies to treat intractable cancers. Because IO therapies can affect any of the body's organ systems, there was early recognition of the value of having a multidisciplinary team of organ specialists who could bring their expertise to the treatment of patients experiencing immune-related adverse events (irAEs).
Rockville, MD — Since the inception of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and the Innovation Center’s launch of the Oncology Care Model (OCM), the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) has deeply valued the opportunity to support stakeholders through its Oncology Care Model Collaborative. ACCC congratulates Brad Smith on his appointment as Director of CMMI and Senior Advisor …