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9-2-10 Affordable Care Act Update
... laws and policies that help cancer patients and their families Government Hosts Stakeholders Conference on Health Exchanges The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted an all-day meeting Monday on health exchanges. The goal was to discuss some of the major issues that will need to be addressed in federal regulations of health exchanges. The day consisted of a series of panels with various stakeholders addressing their major concerns and interests. Steve Finan, ACS CAN’s senior director of Policy, was on the first panel, which looked at consumer and patient perspectives. Among those in the audience were ...
7-8-10 Affordable Care Act Update
... Affordable Care Act. This will provide an opportunity for interested parties to submit data and other information relevant to the implementation of the menu labeling provisions in the new law. The provisions require restaurants and retail food establishments that are part of a chain with 20 ... to the Affordable Care Act, some state and local governments required restaurants in their jurisdiction to post nutritional information. ACS CAN has worked on this issue on the state level for a number of years, and will submit formal comments to the FDA. The Affordable Care Act requires ... more people got screened. The Affordable Care Act will greatly improve screening rates by improving access to insurance coverage and removing cost barriers to screening. The report provides solid evidence that improvements in screening rates could yield dramatic results: 1,900 ...
Welcome to the 2017 Legislative Session Vermont lawmakers new and experienced!
Today marks the first day of the 2017 Legislative Session and there are a lot of changes afoot! Rep. Mitzi Johnson, D-Grand Isle, was sworn in as the 3rd female Speaker of the House in Vermont's history! And in the Senate, ... tomorrow. Former Senator David Zuckerman will be inaugurated as the new Lt. Governor on the same day. With all of this change afoot, ACS CAN will be sending this welcome note to new and experienced lawmakers: Dear 2017 Lawmaker, Congratulations on your election to the Vermont General ...
3-2-12 Affordable Care Act Update
... any service required by the Affordable Care Act if they object based on undefined "religious beliefs or moral convictions." The implications of this provision could result in coverage denials of life-saving preventive services such as mammograms or tobacco cessation based on employer discretion. The amendment failed 51-48. Read ACS CAN's letter and press release opposing the amendment: ...
3-18-11 Affordable Care Act Update
In Congress Committees of jurisdiction for health care in both the House and Senate have been marking the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act being signed ... group plans have an MLR of 85 percent. If a plan falls short of the requirement, the insurance company must give a rebate to consumers. ACS CAN and many other groups representing consumers, patients, and workers supported the NAIC and HHS action as a good balancing of interests among ... benefit started Jan. 1,, more than 150,000 seniors and others with Medicare have received an annual wellness visit. This new visit is a no-cost preventive benefit available to Medicare beneficiaries. Beneficiaries must schedule the visit with a participating health care professional. ...
Health Care Enters a New Era
Congress yesterday took its final historic votes to repair the broken health care system, approving a package of improvements that strengthen the broad reform bill that President Obama signed into law this week. I had the privilege of being in Washington, D.C. with Society Board Chair George Atkins and National Volunteer President Alan Thorson to attend a celebration led by ... this effort successful. By now you’ve heard about the critical role played by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) in bringing the voice of cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers to the debate. I want to share an example of how ACS CAN’s efforts made ...
Advocacy Update 11.13.2014
... 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. Midtem Election Update Election Outcomes Last week, elections for several federal, state, and local ... picked up 8 seats for a 53-46 majority. They are favored to win in Louisiana and could end up with a 54-46 seat majority. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans picked up an estimated 15 seats. If current margins hold, Republicans will head into the 114th Congress with at ... House and Senate committees crafted bills in the 113th Congress to eliminate the SGR, but failed to agree on a way to offset the $138 billion cost of the fix. The current fix expires on March 31, 2015. The doc fix is the legislative vehicle in which ACS CAN is working to tie legislation ...
3-24-11 Affordale Care Act Update
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 ...
2-5-10-This Week in Health Care Reform
... 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 ...
6-9-11 Affordable Care Act Update
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 ...