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CANCER CANDOR BLOG HIGHLIGHTS See Chris' blog for a look at ACS CAN's 2012 highlights and an inspirational guest blog by Dr. Richard Deming, a member of the ACS CAN Board, about his recent experiences hiking in the Himalayas with a group of cancer survivors and care givers.   2013 PREVIEW  ACS ... increasingly relying on provider networks as a marketing tool for improving market share and controlling costs. Insurers are raising the rate of cost-sharing when participants go out-of-network for care, sometimes as high as 50 percent. Moreover, the networks sometimes change frequently as ...

CANCER CANDOR BLOG HIGHLIGHTS See Chris' blog for a look at ACS CAN's 2012 highlights and an inspirational guest blog by Dr. Richard Deming, a member of the ACS CAN Board, about his recent experiences hiking in the Himalayas with a group of cancer survivors and care givers.   2013 PREVIEW  ACS ... increasingly relying on provider networks as a marketing tool for improving market share and controlling costs. Insurers are raising the rate of cost-sharing when participants go out-of-network for care, sometimes as high as 50 percent. Moreover, the networks sometimes change frequently as ...

... Medicare and Medicaid eligibility and benefits. Because Medicare and Medicaid are critical programs for patients with chronic diseases, ACS CAN is partnering with the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association to include the patient voice in the debate. The attached fact sheets have been developed that can be used to help explain the importance of the Medicare and Medicaid programs to patients with chronic disease.  Medicaid~0117.pdf  Medicare Fact Sheet~Rev0113.pdf  FDA Committee Votes ... and Texas - states that have been wrestling with the decision of whether to accept federal dollars that have been set aside to finance the cost of providing health care coverage to up to 16 million hard working, low-income individuals nationwide. ACS CAN also briefed ACS CAN field ...

This September, Illinois ACS CAN advocates took on Capitol Hill where they met with every IL Senate and House office – many of which were conducted face-to-face with members of Congress themselves. Advocates urged lawmakers to increase federal research funding at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) through the ...