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... educate people with cancer and their families about the law’s patient protections. This week’s list follows: The Health Care Law: How It Can Help People With Cancer and their Families – The Society’s consumer-friendly guide to the ACA is available in print from Society Mart (item ... #5600.00). Ley de Atención Médica: Cómo esta ley puede ayudar a las personas con cáncer y a sus familias – The Spanish language version of the ACA consumer guide is available from Society Mart (item #5600.10). fightcancer.org – ACS CAN’s website offers a variety of resources to ... market rules for 2015. The regulation finalizes the open enrollment period for 2015 (November 15 to February 15), increases annual limits on cost-sharing for the 2015 plan year (to $6,600), and specifies requirements for the programs that balance risk among issuers in the new health ...

... Medical Loss Ratio   The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to spend at least 80 percent of their premium revenue on health care claims and quality improvement costs. Beginning this year, insurers who miss the target are required to rebate the difference to policy holders. Late last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final rule governing medical loss ratio (MLR) calculations, the percentage insurers spend on ... is favorable to consumers and maintains the inclusion of  insurance broker and agent fees in the calculation as administrative expenses. ACS CAN strongly supports this aspect of the rule, believing that classifying fees and commissions as administrative expenses more accurately reflects ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 20, 2019 – A report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and other public health groups shows that, amidst a youth tobacco use epidemic that is being driven by ... the states and Big Tobacco that required tobacco companies pay more than $246 billion over time to states as compensation for the deadly toll of their products. Georgia collects approximately $392.2 million in settlement funds and tobacco taxes every year, but will spend a mere 0.7% of that revenue on tobacco prevention programs in Fiscal Year 2020. “Smoking now directly causes an overwhelming $3.18 billion in health care ...

December 1 is a monumental day for North Carolina. The Tar Heel State should feel a sense of pride and relief for the nearly 600,000 North Carolinians who are now eligible for affordable health insurance through Medicaid. We at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) are thrilled to see this decade-long fight culminate in the exciting rollout of Medicaid expansion. Now, hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians can access affordable health insurance, including preventive, lifesaving ...