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... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... fact-based programs that address tobacco use, including the use of e-cigarettes. Smoking is estimated to cost Kentucky $2.23 billion in direct health care costs, including $634 million in Medicaid costs annually. Additionally, smoking costs the state an estimated $6.3 billion in lost productivity ... spent on comprehensive prevention and cessation programs to help people quit, states receive up to $55 in savings from averted tobacco-related health care costs. So, a $10 million investment would be a significant step toward a healthier workforce and could save up to $550 million.” ### ...