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... to the treatment that they should have been receiving all along. Step therapy is not just an annoyance for patients, it is a danger to their health. On granting a step therapy exception determination, the health care insurer, pharmacy benefits manager or utilization review organization is required to authorize coverage for the prescription drug prescribed ...

Understanding Your Health Benefits

Like many of you, I find health insurance benefits to be difficult to interpret. Every time I've enrolled in an insurance plan, I]'ve been presented with a long, ... benefit summary full of industry jargon. That's why I'm happy to share that starting this week, insurers are required under the Affordable Care Act to present every consumer with a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC), a document with simple and easy-to-read information on what their ... reason. Cancer patients, survivors, their families and all consumers are now in a far better position to make important decisions about their health coverage. Here's an example of what an SBC document could look like for you. What do you think about it? You'll see it breaks down the ...

Aspen Health Stewardship Coalition Launches

ACS CAN today will join the Aspen Institute at a Washington, DC event to launch the Aspen Health Stewardship Coalition and call for smart and sustainable improvements to the US health care system. The coalition is part of the Aspen Health Stewardship Project, a bipartisan effort to improve the health of Americans by infusing ...

ACS CAN Files Comments on Health Insurance Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans

... D.C. – October 20, 2011 – The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) today filed comments with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the proposed rule on the development of marketplaces for insurance plans sold to individuals and small businesses under the Affordable Care Act. The comments encourage the administration to clarify and strengthen the rule to benefit patients and consumers, such as by defining parameters for a federally-run health exchange as well as scenarios that would constitute a federal-state exchange partnership that would guarantee consumers seamless access to ...

ACCESS TO CARE

Medicaid Expansion ACS CAN will advocate for low-income individuals and families to have access to health care coverage through TennCare. We will support policies that preserve and protect access to TennCare and will advocate for an expansion of the program, to provide parents and adults earning less than 138% of the federal poverty level access to comprehensive, affordable health insurance coverage. Learn more about our Medicaid Expansion work Biomarker Testing ACS CAN will advocate for improved coverage of ...

Access to Care

Help fight cancer in South Dakota by ensuring everyone has access to quality health care coverage! We can help 50,000 South Dakotans get coverage through Medicaid through accepting federal dollars - it's the right thing to do for ... time to help all South Dakotans get their life-saving preventive screenings by covering more people in our state through Medicaid. Access to Care ...

Senate Introduces Health Equity Legislation Critical to Reduce Health Disparities and Combat Chronic Disease

Washington, D.C. – Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate today aims to improve access to quality health care for communities of color and decrease health disparities, such as those resulting in a disproportionate number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in these communities. Additionally, it offers ...

House Introduces Health Equity Bill Critical to Reducing Health Disparities and Fighting Chronic Disease

Washington, D.C. --  Legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives today aims to improve access to quality health care for and decrease health disparities in communities of color. The Health Equity and Accountability Act (HEAA) of 2022 provides a comprehensive set of strategic ...

In a New Brief, a Coalition of the Nation’s Leading Public Health Advocacy Organizations Urge the Court to Reject Efforts to Gut Access to Health Care for Immigrants

Corpus Christi, TX –  A coalition of the country’s leading public health advocacy organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Texas v. Mayorkas in the United States District Court for the Southern District ... U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) interprets the “public charge” ground of inadmissibility, helps ensure that immigrants can access health care and other supplemental government services to which they are entitled by law, without causing harmful immigration consequences. The coalition ...

Cancer Advocates From All 50 States Visit Capitol Hill to Urge Swift Action on Health Care Reform

... CAN) volunteers from all 50 states are on Capitol Hill today to meet with their lawmakers, calling for Action: Now Not Later on comprehensive health care reform. The lobby day is one of several activities taking place in Washington, D.C., in the latest phase of a campaign sponsored by ACS CAN, the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, to raise awareness that families affected by cancer need health care that is accessible, affordable, available and administratively simple. ACS CAN is also releasing new polling data from a survey ...

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