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... after the Affordable Care Act went into effect, people with cancer or at risk for developing the disease are benefitting from key provisions of the law that are improving access to lifesaving health care. The anniversary of the passage of the law this Friday comes days before the U.S. ... now have access to quality, affordable care that was previously out of reach, said John R. Seffrin, PhD, chief executive officer of ACS CAN. The evidence is clear that the uninsured are more likely than those with health coverage to be diagnosed with cancer at advanced stages and ... Care Act: How it Helps People With Cancer and Their Families. The guide outlines how the new patient protections improve the quality and cost of health care for people with cancer and those at risk for cancer. It also clarifies some of the misunderstandings that still exist about the ...

One Year Later: Provisions of the Law Already Helping Cancer Patients   Timed to coincide with yesterday’s one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, ACS CAN launched the Affordable Care Act Quiz , a new, interactive tool that can be found on fightcancer.org . This short, educational quiz tests your ...

... reform legislation forward.   As always, we remain committed to securing meaningful health care reform in this Congress to address the needs of cancer patients and their families.   GRASSROOTS UPDATE   ACS CAN is keeping up the pressure on legislators, urging them to finish the job on meaningful health care reform.   Earlier this week, we began ... patch-through calls to targeted Senators – Democrat, Republican and Independent - and completed 744 patch-throughs in just the first two days of calling. We expect this rate to greatly increase as we continue calls for the next two weeks.   On Tuesday, ACS CAN hosted its monthly State ...

Federal Update   ACS 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 delivering 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 ...