Site Search

Share

X

Search Results

Prescription Drug Affordability in Michigan

ACS CAN supports legislation that restricts the use of so-called copay accumulator adjustments in health insurance plans.  We advocate for policies that ensure third party prescription drug copay assistance is counted toward patients’ out-of-pocket cost obligations.  Prescription drug affordability safegaurds that patients and their families can care for themselves while reducing the burden ...

Valeria: Fresno, CA

... has had severe chronic asthma. The town where she was born outside Fresno, California was surrounded by industries that emitted high levels of pollution. Many other members of her community -- which was mostly made up of low-income families -- also suffered from chronic asthma. While ... daily, as well as allergy medicines and an inhaler and that help alleviate her asthma. Besides a small co-pay, her health insurance covers the cost of the medications and Valeria is able to go about her daily life.    But in the past Valeria has been unable to access affordable health ... go to the emergency room for care. "It felt like my lungs were working at half capacity," she said. "Everything is affected in your life if you can't breathe."   For Valeria, access to her medication is absolutely critical, and when cost or other barriers get in the way, it can be ...

Let's Screen NY Campaign Homepage

Cancer screenings save lives!  Like going to the dentist or changing the oil in your car, cancer screening should be a regular part of your life. Screening tests are used before a person has any symptoms to help find cancer early, when it may be easier to treat.  Print this ... public policy proposals, all of them are committed to removing barriers to cancer screening. Join the 2022 Let's #ScreenNY Campaign Today! ACS CAN NY has launched the  Let’s Screen NY Campaign . The goal of the campaign is to mobilize federal, state, and local policymakers around an ... offers a critically important service to men and women who lack health insurance – screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer at no cost to the patient. Detected early, these cancers are more effectively treated. Failing to have these cancers detected early can lead to deadly ...

ACSí Se Puede Hispanic/Latino Advocacy Alliance Health Disparities Information

... Figures for Hispanic/Latino People, 2021-2023 The most recent data on cancer data for Hispanic/Latino people, published in a peer-review journal of the American Cancer Society. Facts on Our Fight: Cancer Disparities in the Hispanic/Latinx Community A data brief that talks about cancer disparities in the Hispanic/Latinx community and the work ACS and ACS CAN are doing with communities to advance health equity. The Costs of Cancer in the Hispanic/Latino Community Hispanic/Latino people facing cancer and survivors experience high costs, and are more likely than White ...

Improving Access to Colorectal Cancer Screenings

... When given the choice by a provider, many average-risk patients prefer a stool-based test over colonoscopy and, nationally, about 10 percent of eligible patients opt for stool-based testing.  The new law – which covers about 2.5 million covered lives in private insurance plans – ... guidance on coverage of follow-up colonoscopies, will ensure that more Hoosiers who opt for stool-based testing and receive an abnormal result can also complete a follow-up colonoscopy without facing burdensome cost-sharing.  By the Numbers: Colorectal Cancer in Indiana 3,000 Number of Hoosiers diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2021 1,160 Number of ...

Medicaid Expansion: Improving Access to Coverage, Detecting Cancers, Early, Saving More Lives - Learn More

Medicaid is a vital part of our state's health care system. Many of Missouri's poorest and sickest patients, including many with cancer, gain access to necessary care and ... that participation in the Medicaid expansion would bring $5 billion to Missouri and provide health coverage to 260,000 Missourians at no cost to the state. Learn More About Why Improving Access to Health Care Coverage Through Medicaid Matters to ACS CAN Policy Resources The Missouri Medicaid Expansion: Good for All Missourians   In rural Missouri, expanding access to affordable health care ...

2025 New Jersey Cancer Action Week

... legislation (S3818/A5217), which would improve access to prescription drugs by ensuring copay assistance is counted toward patient out-of-pocket cost obligations. Pass step therapy reform (S3533/A1825). Reforming step therapy means ensuring that it is safe for patients, clinically ... Therapy Copay Accumulator  New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research  New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection Screening Program ACS CAN Supports No Cost PSA Questions, please contact Sr. Maggie Lopez at  [email protected]   2025 New Jersey Cancer Action Week ...

Medicaid Expansion: Improving Access to Coverage, Detecting Cancers, Early, Saving More Lives.

... to provide nearly 260,000 working, low-income Missourians a path to affordable health care coverage. Right now, the Missouri General Assembly can take action to accept billions of dollars of federal money to assure that more hard-working Missouri families have access to affordable health care Coverage, including quality cancer care, ...

Bringing Leaders Together in the Fight against Cancer

The United States spends $88 billion annually on cancer care, with patients paying nearly $4 billion in out-of-pocket costs. The 2019 ACS CAN health care forum examined best practices employers and other payers are using to contain costs while keeping coverage affordable for cancer ... to foster discussion and examine policies that are critical in the fight against cancer. We held our eighth annual National Forum on the Future of Health Care in April 2019 in Washington, D.C., where leaders from government, private and nonprofit organizations gathered to discuss ways to ...

Oral Anti-Cancer Medication Fairness

... been waiting ?   Our Story In 2006 around the country the push began to ensure that cancer patients had the ability to truly access all forms of treatment. This started the 15-year journey that ACS CAN volunteers and staff would embark on to finally get fairness for cancer patients in Michigan. The main issue we face is that even though oral anti-cancer treatments are covered, the cost alone that patients face does not make them affordable. This leads to patients either not following their treatment regiment, financial ...

Type

Priority Issue

State

Policy Issue

Judicial Advocacy