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5-5-11 Affordable Care Act Update

... after a two week spring recess.   On Tuesday, the House voted on H.R. 1213, which would defund state exchange grants included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The grant dollars are awarded to states to assist in their preparation for establishing and maintaining the health exchanges the law requires to be up and running in every state by 2014. The legislation passed the House 238-183.   Five Democratic amendments were offered to the bill, one of where would have required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide a report to Congress on the impact of the rescission of funds, and another one would have required the ...

5-3-12 Affordable Care Act Update

... Summit included a town hall meeting where volunteers and staff asked questions and discussed ongoing strategies for implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Later in the weekend, breakout sessions were held on the essential health benefits provision of the law and why it is so important to achieving adequate coverage for cancer patients and survivors. At the end of the discussion, participants had the chance to build their own essential health benefits package as part of a group exercise designed to parallel conversations being held in state governments with a variety of ...

5-3-12 Affordable Care Act Update

... Summit included a town hall meeting where volunteers and staff asked questions and discussed ongoing strategies for implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Later in the weekend, breakout sessions were held on the essential health benefits provision of the law and why it is so important to achieving adequate coverage for cancer patients and survivors. At the end of the discussion, participants had the chance to build their own essential health benefits package as part of a group exercise designed to parallel conversations being held in state governments with a variety of ...

5-3-12 Affordable Care Act Update

... Summit included a town hall meeting where volunteers and staff asked questions and discussed ongoing strategies for implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Later in the weekend, breakout sessions were held on the essential health benefits provision of the law and why it is so important to achieving adequate coverage for cancer patients and survivors. At the end of the discussion, participants had the chance to build their own essential health benefits package as part of a group exercise designed to parallel conversations being held in state governments with a variety of ...

Leading Health Groups Outline Guidance on Outcomes-Based Incentives

EDINA, Minn. (July 17, 2012) A forward-thinking new initiative by a group of leading health care organizations has produced the industry's most consensus-driven guidance for the use of outcomes-based incentives in employer-sponsored wellness (or health management) programs. The guidance is intended to help ensure that worksite wellness programs utilizing such incentives are effective and ...

2-3-11 Affordable Care Act Update

2/3/11 Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families   Update on ... Act   As I informed you on Monday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the requirement in the Affordable Care Act that all Americans purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. Two federal judges have upheld the so-called “individual responsibility” or “individual mandate” ... that enables the implementation of critical provisions of the law to continue across the country. Read or listen to the audio of Kaiser Health News’ Q&A with legal expert Stuart Taylor on the ruling.   Despite the absence of an injunction, some state officials have said the law ...

2-3-11 Affordable Care Act Update

2/3/11 Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families   Update on ... Act   As I informed you on Monday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the requirement in the Affordable Care Act that all Americans purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. Two federal judges have upheld the so-called “individual responsibility” or “individual mandate” ... that enables the implementation of critical provisions of the law to continue across the country. Read or listen to the audio of Kaiser Health News’ Q&A with legal expert Stuart Taylor on the ruling.   Despite the absence of an injunction, some state officials have said the law ...

2-3-11 Affordable Care Act Update

2/3/11 Below is this week’s update on the Affordable Care Act. As always, thank you for all you do every day to support laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families   Update on ... Act   As I informed you on Monday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that the requirement in the Affordable Care Act that all Americans purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. Two federal judges have upheld the so-called “individual responsibility” or “individual mandate” ... that enables the implementation of critical provisions of the law to continue across the country. Read or listen to the audio of Kaiser Health News’ Q&A with legal expert Stuart Taylor on the ruling.   Despite the absence of an injunction, some state officials have said the law ...

Affordable Care Update 12.18.2014

... Leadership Team (EVPs, SVPs, and VPs), Corporate Center Functional Leaders, Community Engagement and Partner Relationships Senior Directors, All Health Systems Staff, ACS CAN Field Staff and ACS CAN National Staff.   Access to Care New Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment Numbers Released According to enrollment numbers released Dec. 30 by the U.S. Department of Health and ...

6-9-11 Affordable Care Act Update

... CAN filed comments this week with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the proposed Medicare regulation creating Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs, which were mandated in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), are groups of providers that receive bonus payments for ... more integrated and coordinated care for Medicare beneficiaries. ACS CAN’s comments acknowledge the potential of ACOs to improve the health and quality of care of cancer patients, and encourage the administration to improve the regulation to better benefit families affected by ... of palliative care services as an integral component of ACOs and other proposed models. The comments also recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services more carefully consider several patient-specific issues in the regulation, such as:       Enhancing patient ...

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