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Survey: More than 80 Percent of Cancer Patients and Survivors Say Copay Assistance Programs Help Them Afford Their Prescription Drugs

... shows that while copay assistance programs can help cancer patients afford the medications they need, some aren’t able to apply them to their health insurance deductible or other out-of-pocket requirements, which can create a barrier to care.  An overwhelming majority of respondents (83%) who have applied to a copay assistance program and were accepted say the assistance enables ... than a quarter (27%) of respondents who enrolled in a copay assistance program report that the assistance they received was not applied to their health insurance deductible or other out-of-pocket cost requirements.  “Everyone should have a fair and just opportunity to prevent, find, treat ...

House & Senate Committee Hearings to Highlight Critical Need for Affordable Access to Lifesaving Medication

... create more predictability for patients facing high out-of-pocket expenses for lifesaving medication. The following day, February 29, the House Health and Government Operations Committee will hold a hearing on the companion bill, House Bill 879. Current practices in Maryland make it so that ... a bipartisan opportunity for lawmakers to ensure that patients have access to affordable and predictable out-of-pocket costs for lifesaving care. ACS CAN is urging Senate Finance and House Health and Government Operations Committee members to vote in support of this proposal, making it so that their constituents have fewer barriers to ...

Maine 2024 Legislative Priorities

... 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 Mainers impacted by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease. In ... at disproportionately high levels. To prevent youth and young adults from using tobacco products, help people quit and reduce tobacco-related health disparities, ACS CAN will advocate in support of ending the sale of all flavored tobacco products including but not limited to menthol ...

Progress Slows in States Enacting Balanced Patient Pain Policies for Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases

... the findings showed while states have made considerable progress over the last decade in enacting policies that enhance access to pain care for patients with serious illness, this progress has slowed, and in some states reversed, in recent years. The report, Achieving Balance in ... (PPSG) prepared the report, which was jointly funded by ACS and ACS CAN. As a nation we must enact sensible policies to curb the growing public health crisis of opioid abuse, while at the same time recognizing the needs of cancer patients and survivors who have debilitating pain and must ... manager for the PPSG. "It is also important that new policies don 't impose undueξtreatmentξbarriers that affect important doctor-patient health care decision-making. The 2016 report found while there is some continued improvement in patient access to quality pain treatment, states ...

New Report Finds More Than a Quarter of States Falling Short on Cancer Policies

... can take action to fight cancer: access to breast and cervical cancer screenings for low-income, uninsured and underinsured women; access to care for the uninsured; access to screening for colorectal cancer (commonly known as colon cancer); preserving private insurance coverage for ... .  The report also features a section on expanding access to care.  The Society recently issued four principles that define meaningful health insurance and highlight major problems in the health care system that are impeding progress against cancer and other major diseases.  As part of their ongoing efforts to improve access to ...

2024 Oklahoma Legislative Priorities

... requires bold public policy solutions that promote cancer prevention, increase early detection of cancer, expand access to quality, affordable health care, reduce disparities and advance health equity. State and local lawmakers’ decisions impact the lives of those affected by cancer. In 2024, the American Cancer Society Cancer ...

Minnesota House Committee Advances Bill for Increased Access to Tobacco Cessation Treatment and Medications

Eagan, Minn. — Today, the House Preventive Health Policy Division voted in favor of advancing House File 3153, which would ensure that Medicare Assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollees have ... committee’s decision to support legislation that would remove barriers to proven tobacco cessation strategies. HF 3153 now goes to the House Health Finance and Policy Committee for a hearing. Commercial tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disability, death and disease, claiming the lives of 6,300 Minnesotans each year and costing the state over $3 billion in excess annual health care costs. A report on smoking cessation by the Surgeon General concluded that insurance coverage leads to higher rates of successful quitting and ...

Ohio Launches Policy Forum Series the week of November 16th

... Director, Bryan Hannon remarks, “the 2020 Policy Forum series in Ohio will allow our ACS CAN team to discuss issues related to access to care and cancer prevention that are at the core of our advocacy work. We are incredibly lucky to have two broad panels of experts helping our team ...   2020 ACS CAN Ohio Policy Forum: Cost of Cancer Care Held Virtually on November 16th 11:00 am   From rising costs to growing gaps in health coverage, we will take a closer look at the variety of issues cancer patients and their doctors face and the ways we can work together to ... 11:04 am Panel Introductory Remarks hosted by Julie DiRossi-King, Director of Policy and Public Affairs with the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (OACHC) Representative Susan Manchester, representing Ohio’s 84 th House District Wendy Xu, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Health ...

Final Insurance Market Reform Rule Better Defines Tobacco Rating Qualifications; More Guidance Necessary for Consumers

WASHINGTON, D.C. February 22, 2013 The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released the final Health Insurance Market Reform Rule of the Affordable Care Act, including a more specific definition of what constitutes a tobacco user for purposes of determining whether insurers can charge a higher ...

Advocates Call on Lawmakers To Help Patients Afford Their Medication

... especially those suffering with chronic illnesses, access to the lifesaving medication they may otherwise not be able to afford. However, health insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are using a new benefit design called copay accumulator adjustments that makes it more challenging for patients to afford their medication. Assembly and Senate Health Committee Chairs Richard Gottfried and Senator Gustavo Rivera are sponsoring legislation (A1741/S5299) requiring health insurers and PBMs to ... medications at the counter when out-of-pocket costs reach $250 or more.  This also shifts the burden of healthcare costs back to the primary care provider or emergency room when a patient becomes unstable. Many patients battling cancer, arthritis, blood disorders, multiple sclerosis, ...

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