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Bringing Leaders Together in the Fight against Cancer

The United States spends $88 billion annually on cancer care, with patients paying nearly $4 billion in out-of-pocket costs. The 2019 ACS CAN health care forum examined best practices employers and other payers are using to contain costs while keeping coverage affordable for cancer ... to foster discussion and examine policies that are critical in the fight against cancer. We held our eighth annual National Forum on the Future of Health Care in April 2019 in Washington, D.C., where leaders from government, private and nonprofit organizations gathered to discuss ways to ...

Tennessee Should Make It Easier to Quit Tobacco

... legislative session set to begin Tuesday, here is a statement from Maddie Bushnell Michael, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Tennessee government relations director: “As Tennessee lawmakers dive into the 2024 legislative session, ACS CAN urges them to prioritize legislation to ease the burden of cancer on Tennesseans. Tennessee has cancer incidence and death rates above the national average. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the Volunteer State, with smoking linked to at least 12 types of cancer. Each year, more than 35 percent of cancer deaths ...

American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Priorities for 2021 Legislative Session

LANSING, MI – As lawmakers dive into the new year, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) looks ahead to what public health initiatives our lawmakers can accomplish in the 2021 legislative session. Michigan has a long way to go ... legislation. This legislation would give chronically ill patients easier access to the cancer treatment they need. It would ensure the out-of-pocket cost to the patient for oral chemotherapy and intravenous chemotherapy are similar. Currently, the out-of-pocket costs for some oral chemotherapy ...

Survivor Views: Majority Less Likely to Get Recommended Screenings if Coverage is Lost

Overview The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) empowers advocates across the country to make their voices heard and influence evidence-based public policy change, as well as legislative and regulatory solutions that will reduce the cancer burden. As part of this effort, ACS CAN deploys surveys to better understand cancer patient and survivor experiences and perspectives, through our Survivor Views ... less likely to stay up to date with preventive care if the provision mandating 100% coverage was repealed, resulting in a patient out-of-pocket cost for these services. Fifty-three percent put the dollar amount that would present a barrier to accessing preventive services at less than $200. ...

July 2009 Monthly Advocacy Update

... On Monday, June 22, we made history when President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Van Wolf, Chair of the American Cancer Society Board of Directors and Society and ACS CAN Chief Executive Officer John R. Seffrin, PhD, were among the guests at the White House Rose Garden signing ceremony. The Food and Drug ... as a reason to deny or limit coverage ensure that people with a chronic or catastrophic disease, like cancer, are not financially ruined by the cost of care place reasonable limitations on premiums and other patient out-of pocket costs abolish annual and lifetime caps on dollars spent or ...

15,300 New Yorkers’ Lives to Be Saved with Cigarette Tax Increase

... shepherding a tobacco-free generation in New York, leading public health organizations—the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (TFK)— released an analysis of the public health benefits & cost savings that New York can expect to see with a $1.00 per pack cigarette tax increase. In addition to saving New York State millions of dollars ...

Cancer Advocates Applaud 2nd Circuit for Protecting Patients from Surprise Billing

WASHINGTON, D.C.— January 24, 2023  — Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision in the case of Haller v. Health and Human Services (HHS) upholding the U.S. District Court’s ruling preserving the provisions of the No Surprises Act ... court for reconsideration of the issue of payments between providers and insurers.   The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) filed an amicus curiae, or friend-of-the-court,  brief  in the case in August, urging the circuit court to uphold the law and keep the ...

Legislation Introduced to Revolutionize Cancer Treatment in Maine

... to receive biomarker testing – a routine step in accessing personalized medicine treatments that has become an increasingly important part of cancer care in recent years due to its significant impact in improving survivorship and quality of life. Progress in the fight against cancer has been in part due to advances in biomarker testing which allows physicians to match patients with ... some biomarker testing for some patients, meaning the most appropriate test for a patient may not be covered. As a result, too many Mainers can’t access such testing, which can contribute to disparities in access to the most appropriate and effective treatments. LD 1577 would address ...

Got Milk (or Water)?

  Sacramento, Calif. – New ACS CAN Report Spotlights Role Nutrition Plays in Cancer Fight. A new report that grades states based on how well they’re enacting cancer-fighting ... in kids’ meals.   Currently, most restaurant kids’ meals include a sugary beverage that contains more than the weekly recommended amount of sugary drinks for children. With the American Cancer Society findings now showing nearly 20 percent of all cancers are linked to weight, it is ... eating and active living environments.    “Customers can still explicitly ask to replace the healthy drink with a sugary beverage at no cost, but the default beverage offered in a children’s meal must be a healthful option,” said Kris Lev-Twombly, executive director of the ...

House Passes Legislation to Increase Funding for Cancer Research

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- July 24, 2009 -- “The House of Representatives today took a big step forward in the fight against cancer with passage of the FY 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services ... research and early detection programs. We encourage the Senate to pass this lifesaving legislation in a timely manner. Only with proper funding can the NIH, the NCI and the CDC conduct their important work to conquer a disease that will kill an estimated 560,000 Americans and cost the economy more than $228 billion this year.” ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, ...

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