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Survey: Cancer Patients and Survivors Alter or Delay Care Due to Insurance Barriers

... D.C.—December 5, 2019—Some recent and current cancer patients are making changes to their cancer treatment due to the coverage and cost of prescription drugs and surprise medical bills, according to new survey results from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). The latest survey from Survivor Views , a national cohort of cancer patients and survivors who complete surveys on a range of public policy ...

Idaho Cancer Advocates Again Call on Lawmakers to Protect Access to Health Care, Medicaid Expansion  

BOISE, Idaho – As Idahoans face soaring health care insurance costs and thousands at risk of losing life-saving coverage, volunteer advocates of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network are urging state lawmakers to use the 2026 ... detect and defeat cancer. “We hear directly from Idahoans every year, and their message is clear: Medicaid expansion saves lives,” ACS CAN Idaho Government Relations Director Randy Johnson said. “Early detection is one of the most powerful tools we have against cancer and ... impacts on Medicaid. Reducing youth initiation and adult tobacco use remains one of the most effective strategies to bend Idaho’s long-term cost curve. ACS CAN encourages individuals, businesses and organizations that are interested in getting involved in the fight against cancer to ...

Braidwood v. Kennedy

Identifying and treating cancer at an early stage – before it has an opportunity to grow and spread – can meaningfully improve clinical outcomes and reduce overall health care costs. Diagnosing and treating cancer early can also reduce overall health care expenditures. ACS CAN is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to evidence-based preventive services at no cost to them. Unfortunately, a lawsuit in Texas challenges the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that require most private insurers (and coverage for the Medicaid expansion population) to cover preventive ...

Patient and Medical Professional Organizations Applaud Administration’s Decision to Defend Access to Preventive Health Services in US Supreme Court Braidwood Case

Washington, D.C. -   Last night, the Solicitor General’s office filed its merits brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Braidwood Management v. Kennedy , outlining its intention to defend the provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires most private insurers to cover preventive services recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) without cost sharing by patients. Organizations representing millions of patients with serious health conditions and thousands of health care professionals ... applaud the administration’s decision to continue to defend the vital provision of the ACA. Research has proven that any cost sharing can be a deterrent to accessing critical prevention and early detection and ultimately puts lives at risk. According to a recent American Cancer ...

National Patient Groups Oppose Allowing Employers to Charge Less Health Workers More For Health Care

WASHINGTON -- January 7, 2010 -- Three of the nation’s leading patient groups are calling on congressional leaders to ensure that final health care reform legislation promotes ... financial incentives for healthy behaviors that are not tied to insurance premiums. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association worked with House leaders to develop workplace wellness provisions in ... of dollars more for insurance by allowing rewards and penalties equivalent to 30 percent – and potentially 50 percent – of the total cost of an employee’s health coverage. The Senate language does not set evidence-based guidelines for workplace wellness programs. It also would ...

Proposed Medicare Rule Would Remove Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening

... The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed changes to the 2023 Medicare program that, if finalized, would eliminate cost sharing for colonoscopies after a positive non-invasive screening test, and lower the minimum age of colorectal cancer screening to 45. Lowering the minimum age of coverage from 50 to 45 and providing coverage of medically indicated follow-on ... barriers to cancer screening that will save lives,” said Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). “Currently most Medicare beneficiaries are assessed 20% cost sharing for follow-on colonoscopies after a positive non-invasive test, an ...

Tax Bill Could Pose Problems for Cancer Patients; Cancer Research

Washington, D.C.—Today the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) sent a letter to House leadership and committee chairs asking that they reconsider provisions of their tax proposal that could harm cancer patients. Specifically, ACS CAN opposes eliminating the medical expense deduction and ending tax ... cancer patients,” said Hansen. “Tax policy should help those most in need. These changes could instead hurt those already suffering the high cost of this terrible disease.” Read the letter . 0 Tax Bill Could Pose Problems for Cancer Patients; Cancer Research ...

Senate Votes to Remove Barriers to Genetic Testing

... passed Senate Bill 2679, improving access to recommended genetic testing and fact-based screenings for people with a personal or family history of cancer.    The following is a statement from Ally Lopshire, government relations director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) in Illinois:   "To reduce the burden of cancer in Illinois, ACS CAN supports legislation that will improve access to guideline recommended genetic testing for inherited gene mutations by capping burdensome patient cost-sharing requirements at no more than $50. We’re disappointed to see that the legislation allows for cost-sharing for evidence-based cancer ...

New Report Highlights Health Care System 's Financial Squeeze on Cancer Patients

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- February 5, 2009 -- Cancer patients can face severe challenges in paying for life-saving care running up large debts, filing for personal bankruptcy and even delaying or forgoing ... affected by cancer who encounter problems navigating the health care system. For these patients, having Access to Health Care at the time of their cancer diagnosis did not protect them from high out-of-pocket costs leaving them with large debts to cover their treatment costs and ... said John R. Seffrin, Ph.D., national chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society. “High out-of-pocket costs coupled with the high cost of insurance premiums can force cancer patients to incur huge debt, and to delay or forgo life-saving treatments.” The report, which was ...

Patient Groups Applaud Circuit Court Ruling That Largely Stays Remedy in Braidwood Management v. Becerra

WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 13, 2023 – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit approved an agreement by the parties on a stay of the remedy in the case of Braidwood v. Becerra , pausing the ... of the lower court’s ruling that threatens access to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended preventive services without cost sharing as required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The agreement provides that the government will not take any action to enforce the ... no cost prevention and screenings would have on health outcomes.  The groups, including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), Arthritis Foundation, American Kidney Fund, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The National Multiple Sclerosis ...

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