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McKee Takes Final Step to Ensure Affordable Colorectal Cancer Screenings for Rhode Islanders
... RI – Today, Gov. Daniel McKee will sign into law The Maryellen Goodwin Colorectal Cancer Screening Act, which ensures Rhode Islanders can access affordable preventative colorectal cancer screening beginning at age 45. It does this by eliminating cost-sharing for all preventative colorectal cancer screening tests for people 45 and older, even if they are performed as a follow up to a positive less invasive screening. A broad coalition of public health groups, including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and Fight Colorectal Cancer (Fight CRC), have spent ...
2025 Rhode Island Legislative Priorities
2025 ACS CAN Rhode Island Legislative Agenda Victory in the fight against cancer requires bold new public policies that promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expand access to quality, affordable health care. Lawmakers make many decisions that impact the lives of Rhode Islanders impacted by ... plans. We will advocate for policies that ensure third party prescription drug copay assistance is counted toward patients’ out-of-pocket cost obligations. Prescription Drug Access: ACS CAN will advocate for legislation that ensures prior authorization and step therapy requirements ...
Rhode Island Getting Mixed Reviews on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies
... it comes to supporting policies and passing legislation to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer. According to the latest edition of How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, Rhode Island measured up to policy recommendations in five of the nine issue areas ranked. The report was released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). “This 15 th edition of the report shows just how far we’ve come in the last decade and a half passing policies proven to reduce ...
Rhode Island Senate Votes to Remove Barriers to Biomarker Testing
... right patient, at the right time,’ precision medicine has played a critical role in improving cancer outcomes – biomarker testing being one of the ways we can achieve these outcomes by allowing doctors to understand and target unique markers in a patient’s cancer cells. Despite its benefits, access to biomarker testing has not kept pace with the rate of innovation due in part to lack of coverage by private health insurance and Medicaid for needed testing. Senate Bill 2201 aims to enable more ...
Rhode Island Getting Mixed Reviews on Cancer Fighting Public Policies
... it comes to supporting policies and passing legislation to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer. According to the latest edition of How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, Rhode Island measured up to policy recommendations in just six of the ten issue areas ranked. The report was released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). "We've made tremendous progress in the way we diagnose and treat cancer across the country. But to leverage this progress, Rhode Island ...
8th Annual Rhode Island Research Breakfast Speaker Biographies
8 th Annual Rhode Island Research Breakfast Speakers Bernard A. Jackvony, JD Bernard A. Jackvony is of counsel to Pannone Lopes Devereaux & O'Gara LLC. From 1997 to 1999, Bernie served as Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island. He earned his undergraduate from Bryant University, his master's degree from Boston University, and his J.D. from Suffolk ... service on the Florida Division Board of Directors. In November 2011, he was elected to serve on the National Board of Directors for ACS CAN. Serving as the Research Breakfast Committee Chair for the past seven years, Bernie is not only responsible for the inception of the event, he ...
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