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... Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) filed comments this week with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the proposed Accountable Care Organization (ACO) regulation issued under the Affordable Care Act. The comments acknowledge the potential of ACOs to improve the health and quality of care for cancer patients, and encourage the administration to improve the regulation to better benefit families affected by ... harmful effects of pain, symptoms and emotional distress can enhance survival and reduce costs. The comments also encourage the Department of Health and Human Services to make a handful of revisions to the regulations, such as enhancing patient participation on ACO governing boards; ...

Gov. Paterson has signed "The Palliative Care Patient Information Act," strongly backed by the American Cancer Society, which is designed to give patients and their families more control ... a bill to provide patients access to information about palliative care, pain treatments and end of life care options. The legislation requires health care providers to offer their patients who are diagnosed with a terminal illness information and counseling about treatments and options, ... though it does not require patients and/or families to participate in that counseling. Inadequate treatment of pain is a significant public health problem in the United States. . · Pain is one of the most common and most feared symptoms of cancer. The perception that pain is associated ...

What is Medicaid? Medicaid is a health insurance program that provides comprehensive and affordable health care coverage to many low-income Americans. Medicaid is funded by both state and federal governments. Who is covered by Medicaid? Federal ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, 25 groups representing millions of health care professionals and patients with serious and chronic health conditions filed an amicus curiae (also known as friend of the court) brief , in the case of State of Tennessee et al. v. Becerra in the ...