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Cancer Advocates Visit Rep. Lawler’s Office, Urge Him to Protect Medicaid for all New Yorkers
... including working families, cancer patients and survivors, people with disabilities, seniors, veterans and children, who receive lifesaving care through Medicaid. Federal lawmakers have proposed slashing up to $880 billion from Medicaid over the next decade. Such devastating cuts would put essential health services at risk for millions of people nationwide and for the more than 6.7 million New Yorkers who rely on Medicaid for lifesaving health care --including prescriptions for limited-income seniors, kids receiving cancer treatment and prenatal care for expecting mothers. ...
Calls to Improve New Yorkers’ Access to Precision Medicine Through Biomarker Testing Bring Together Patients and Providers from across Disease Spectrum
ALBANY, NY – APRIL 19, 2023 – With budget talks nearing an end, key public health, patient and provider groups have launched a campaign to urge New York lawmakers to support Assembly Bill 1673 / Senate Bill 1196. The proposed legislation seeks to improve New Yorkers’ access to precision medicine, requiring all state-regulated health plans, including Medicaid, to cover biomarker testing when it is supported by medical and scientific evidence. Over 60 organizations have ... time. Utilizing information from patients’ own genes and tissue, biomarker testing unlocks the door to precision medicine, or personalized care. Biomarker testing helps providers to identify the most appropriate treatment for a disease. In cancer care, this can enable patients to ...
NYS Senate Rejects Medicaid Rollback of Biomarker Testing Coverage Criteria, Patient Advocates Urge Governor & Assembly to Follow Suit in Final Budget
... to roll back Medicaid coverage criteria for biomarker testing, heeding the calls of cancer survivors, patient advocates and public health organizations, like the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). The Assembly took a more mixed approach accepting parts ... of nationally-recognized clinical practice guidelines as evidence criteria. Clinical practice guidelines establish standards of care informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and risks of alternative care options and include ... medicine treatments it unlocks. They bridged divides to deliver for patients and put New York at the forefront of the fight for health care affordability. Unfortunately, with their one house budgets, the Legislature produced divergent priorities, and only one ...
March Advocacy Roundup
... D.C. to send a message to Congress that cancer patients cannot wait any longer for new livesaving treatments. Joined by National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, Seffrin and Armstrong called on Congress to commit to sustained federal funding for research and proven screening ... for the remainder of FY11 would cut the NIH budget by 5.2% and the CDC budget by 21%. View the polling summary . The Affordable Care Act Turns One Erin T. is a 24-year-old breast cancer patient living in New York City. Prior to the Affordable Care Act, the only way for ... to get well. Erin is grateful for the benefits of the Affordable Care Act that greatly improved her outlook on life. One year after the new health care law, stories like Erin's are becoming more and more common, as key provisions are already improving the health care system for those ...
Advocates Look to Governor Hochul to Address Affordability Concerns across Cancer Continuum in 2025-26 Executive Budget
... Director Michael Davoli: “Coming off Governor Hochul’s State of the State address earlier this week, where access to and the costs of health care were sparingly mentioned, patient advocates are hopeful that the governor prioritizes health care affordability in her executive budget proposal for FY 2025-26. “Concerns around the cost of living pervade everyday life for most ...
February Advocacy Round Up
... year. The bill, which passed, cuts federal spending by almost $100 billion, and includes a 5% cut of $1.6 billion to the National Institutes of Health budget. The legislation also slashed the budget at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by 21%, which includes cuts to ... in the Senate strategy, as we have very supportive Senators in both states, but we will keep you posted as the situation develops. Affordable Care Act - New Threats, New Alliances In addition to cutting cancer research and prevention programs, HR1 was also used to block funding to pay ... CR passed that would greatly complicate the law’s implementation, including language affecting the development of regulations to govern the health benefit exchanges and determine the essential benefits package. Amendments also passed that would deny funding to enforce the new medical ...
Cancer Patients Need Paid Time Off During Treatment
... all cancer patients, survivors and caregivers who work have access to paid leave, and without it they risk losing employment or not getting the care they need. New York made history when it enacted the Paid Family Leave program in 2016. The program was built on the state’s decades-old ... loved one, or address the impact of military deployment, TDI is the program New Yorkers rely on when they need to take care of their own serious health needs. When PFL was passed in 2016, it guaranteed New Yorkers 12 weeks of paid, job-protected leave at 67% of their wages -- up to ... That's why it is so important to give employees the right to take a few hours or days of leave at a time, if necessary, for their own serious health conditions or to care for family members with serious health conditions. A nationwide survey of cancer patients showed that of those ...
Help us protect Medicaid with 4 actions in 4 weeks!
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on the budget bill that cuts Medicaid and makes health insurance costs more expensive for everyone as soon as the week of June 23rd. We need your help to try to protect Medicaid and affordable health care. 0 Help us protect Medicaid with 4 actions in 4 weeks! ...
Photos: On Obama's Route in Albany
... gathered along the motorcade route near the Albany International Airport on Albany-Shaker Road (about a mile from the ACS office) to promote health care reform and to welcome the President to the Capital Region. Regional Advocacy Director, Sherry Tomasky was interviewed by the Albany Times ... invited to this very tighly controlled event at HVCC. Diana shared that she spoke to President Obama and thanked him for his efforts regarding health care reform. She reported that he thanked the American Cancer Society in return and said "you are doing important work." Photos: On ...
Preserve Medicaid Patient Access To Biomarker Testing
... Governor Hochul’s proposed rollback of biomarker testing access for Medicaid patients. Biomarker testing saves lives and reduces long-term health care spending. The 2023 law, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, ensured equitable coverage for proven biomarker testing for more New ... back coverage for Medicaid patients, jeopardizing coverage for millions. This proposal is short-sighted for the budget and will result in worse health outcomes. Please join ACS CAN in calling on state lawmakers to preserve Medicaid patients’ access to biomarker testing. ...