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ACCC, along with its project partner APOS, identified three ACCC member programs that are serving as model sites for the “Psychosocial Distress Screening” project. Selected from a nationwide pool of 40 pre-identified sites, these model distress screening programs participated in a site visit and interviews to glean information on their approach to implementation of a distress screening program. Findings …
ACCC's education programs are delivered in live national and regional meetings, webinars, workshops, publications, case studies, surveys, environmental scans and literature reviews.
OI | January–February 2018 | accc-cancer.org 61 action Missed ACCC’s Call on the Final 2018 OPPS and PFS Rules? ACCC Members can log in and access the archived call online at: bit.ly/2018FinalRules. An in-depth analysis of the 2018 Medicare payment rules from ACCC and legal experts from Hogan Lovells U.S., LLP. Learn how these final rules will affect your cancer program or …
The title of my final ACCC President’s Message column, which ran in the March–April 2017 Oncology Issues, was “Together We Are Stronger.” As I begin my two-year term as the first Editor-in-Chief of this now peer-reviewed journal, I’d like to revisit these important words.
Since 1992, Medicare has paid for the services of physicians, non-physician practitioners, and certain other suppliers under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS or PFS).
tools Approved Drugs • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval to Adcetris® (brentuximab vedotin) (Seattle Genetics, Inc., seattlegenetics.com) for the treatment of adult patients with primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma or CD30-ex- pressing mycosis fungoides who have received prior systemic therapy. • The FDA has approved Alecensa® (alectinib) …
Saint Luke’s Hospital’s Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer is one of the only centers in the United States dedicated solely to the comprehensive care of women with late-stage breast cancer.
St. Luke's University Health Network aligned its cancer community needs assessment (CNA) with its network Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to achieve measurable goals.
Half of survey respondents say that their EHR has “slightly decreased” the time providers are able to spend with patients; 16% report clinician time with patients has “significantly decreased” after EHR adoption. Highlights from the 2017 Trending Now in Cancer Care Survey A joint survey of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) and the Advisory Board Oncology …
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.
All eyes are on Congress in recent months with Affordable Care Act repeal and tax reform, but the real action—and consequential reimbursement decisions for ACCC cancer programs—is happening on the regulatory side.
The University of Kansas Cancer Center and Patient Resource, LLC, have collaborated on a navigation and patient education system, coordinating oncology patient care and providing personalized education for individuals with a new or potential primary oncology diagnosis.
The Susan P. Wheatlake Regional Cancer Center lacked the infrastructure to fund survivorship and navigation software, but still needed to assess how to meet needs, procure service affiliations, and facilitate access to services in a fiscally responsible manner.
Beaumont Health in metropolitan Detroit is actively preparing its physical therapists (PTs) and occupational therapists (OTs) to provide patient-centered, diagnosis-specific, compassionate care to cancer patients through advanced training by development of an accredited clinical residency program in cancer rehabilitation.
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.
Grand Valley Oncology, a freestanding cancer care facility wholly owned by Community Hospital, provides full spectrum outpatient medical and radiation oncology services as well as robust survivorship and integrative therapies programs.
fast facts more online @ accc-cancer.org Cancer Patients & Financial Toxicity • 1/3 of insured people with cancer end up paying more out-of-pocket than they expected. • Costs, such as copays and deductibles, can lead to financial distress among insured patients of all income levels and with all stages of cancer. • Having higher-than-expected out-of-pocket costs was …
Organizing care around a patient’s diagnosis with multidisciplinary, disease-specific teams is value-based healthcare delivery.
The 2018 Medicare final regulations, code updates, and other reimbursement changes will bring significant compensation shifts for oncology providers.