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12-8-11 Affordable Care Act Update

... Medical Loss Ratio   The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to spend at least 80 percent of their premium revenue on health care claims and quality improvement costs. Beginning this year, insurers who miss the target are required to rebate the difference to policy holders. Late last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final rule governing medical loss ratio (MLR) calculations, the percentage insurers spend on ... is favorable to consumers and maintains the inclusion of  insurance broker and agent fees in the calculation as administrative expenses. ACS CAN strongly supports this aspect of the rule, believing that classifying fees and commissions as administrative expenses more accurately reflects ...

12-8-11 Affordable Care Act Update

... Medical Loss Ratio   The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to spend at least 80 percent of their premium revenue on health care claims and quality improvement costs. Beginning this year, insurers who miss the target are required to rebate the difference to policy holders. Late last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final rule governing medical loss ratio (MLR) calculations, the percentage insurers spend on ... is favorable to consumers and maintains the inclusion of  insurance broker and agent fees in the calculation as administrative expenses. ACS CAN strongly supports this aspect of the rule, believing that classifying fees and commissions as administrative expenses more accurately reflects ...

12-8-11 Affordable Care Act Update

... Medical Loss Ratio   The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to spend at least 80 percent of their premium revenue on health care claims and quality improvement costs. Beginning this year, insurers who miss the target are required to rebate the difference to policy holders. Late last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final rule governing medical loss ratio (MLR) calculations, the percentage insurers spend on ... is favorable to consumers and maintains the inclusion of  insurance broker and agent fees in the calculation as administrative expenses. ACS CAN strongly supports this aspect of the rule, believing that classifying fees and commissions as administrative expenses more accurately reflects ...

03-07-2014 Affordable Care Act Update

... educate people with cancer and their families about the law’s patient protections. This week’s list follows: The Health Care Law: How It Can Help People With Cancer and their Families – The Society’s consumer-friendly guide to the ACA is available in print from Society Mart (item ... #5600.00). Ley de Atención Médica: Cómo esta ley puede ayudar a las personas con cáncer y a sus familias – The Spanish language version of the ACA consumer guide is available from Society Mart (item #5600.10). fightcancer.org – ACS CAN’s website offers a variety of resources to ... market rules for 2015. The regulation finalizes the open enrollment period for 2015 (November 15 to February 15), increases annual limits on cost-sharing for the 2015 plan year (to $6,600), and specifies requirements for the programs that balance risk among issuers in the new health ...

Budget Resolutions Present Opportunities for Health Care Reform This Year

... in jeopardy, access to quality, affordable health care more often hangs in the balance.  American Cancer Society research shows that the lack of access to health insurance too often results in a later-stage cancer diagnosis, when the disease is more expensive to treat and harder to ... the Budget Resolutions are a first step toward increasing funding for prevention and cancer research in the FY 2010.  We already have many of the tools we need to detect a disease that will kill an estimated 560,000 people in America this year, but we must ensure that all Americans ... Further, we need money for research to develop tests and treatments for those deadly cancers for which we still lack answers. “ACS CAN is proud to be working with a broad cross-section of stakeholders to make sure health care reform is a top priority in the 111th Congress. ...

This is what makes a plan affordable

You're hearing a lot of talk about making health care AFFORDABLE. So, what does "affordable" really mean? ACS CAN has outlined five key tenets to determine if legislation would make health care affordable for all Americans.ξ Legislation should include: oξξξ Caps on patientsŠ—È out of pocket expenses oξξξ An end to arbitrary annual and lifetime caps on benefits oξξξ Reasonable premium costs and subsidies for ...

Protecting Funding for Cancer Prevention

ACS CAN was back walking the halls of Congress to protect an important health program. Along with representatives from 40 organizations, ACS CAN met with more than 70 U.S. Representatives and Senators to discuss the importance of prevention in the fight against cancer. We made sure that officials knew that through proven ways to prevent cancer and detect it early, we can ...

Patient advocates & public health leaders rally around proposed investment to alleviate medical debt in Pennsylvania

HARRISBURG, PA – March 6, 2024 – As state lawmakers consider proposals that aim to reduce the financial impact of disease on patients and families, a new study from the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that medical debt is associated with worse health ... status, more premature deaths and higher mortality rates. Researchers with the ACS have found that medical debt was associated with more days of poor physical and mental health, more years of life lost and higher mortality rates for all-cause and leading causes of death at the county ... food on the table for their families,” said Donna Greco, Government Relations Director for American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) in Pennsylvania. “Medical debt is bad for patients’ health, and is the leading policy priority for cancer patients and survivors . The ...

House Proposal to Address the Budget Would Hurt Chronic Disease Patients

WASHINGTON May 9, 2012 The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, together with the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Association, ... repealing the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which has already suffered a significant cut, would compromise our ability to make progress on cost containment, public health modernization, and wellness promotion. Programs supported by the Fund are already helping Americans adopt healthier ...

House & Senate Committee Hearings to Highlight Critical Need for Affordable Access to Lifesaving Medication

... the Maryland Senate Finance Committee will consider Senate Bill 595, which seeks to create more predictability for patients facing high out-of-pocket expenses for lifesaving medication. The following day, February 29, the House Health and Government Operations Committee will hold a ... so that a patient using copay assistance to fill a prescription for a lifesaving medication may incur hefty unexpected medical bills—a result of insurers or pharmacy benefit managers not applying copay assistance payments to a patient’s deductible. Senate Bill 595/House Bill 879 will ... around medication expenses. Lance Kilpatrick, Maryland Government Relations Director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), will testify at the hearing to make the case to enact these patient protections for Marylanders, following the lead of nineteen other states. ...

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