Sign the Stop Cancer Care Cuts Petition!!!
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Watch the Cancer Community Dancing for Cancer Care
Before fighting for cancer care on Capitol Hill, the community danced for everyone battling cancer.
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Access the COA Practice Impact Report
The Community Oncology Alliance has developed a tracking database on the adverse impact of Medicare reimbursement on community oncology practices. The database was initially compiled from private and public sources. Included in this report are a table...
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Calculate the Impact of the 2011 Medicare Fee Schedule Cuts
COA is providing this tool to allow practices to estimate the impact of the 2011 Physician Fee Schedule on 2011 and 2013 billings. There are two scenarios built into the 2011 and 2013 estimates.
The first scenario is that Congress acts to avert the...
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Download Stop Cancer Care Cuts Petition Materials for Your Practice
Distribute the Stop Cancer Care Cuts Petition in your practice
Click here for a flyer in PDF format that you can print and have available in your practice. Click here for a paper version of the petition that you can have available for those to...
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Access the Preliminary Rule on the 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Click here to access a fact sheet of the 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
Click here to access a copy of the 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
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Tell Your Members of Congress About the Cancer Care Cuts
Here is a one-pager that you can use and leave in discussing the cancer care crisis.
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Access the 2010 MedPAC Report
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Read the COA Statement on Health Care Reform
COA issues a statement on the impact of health care reform on cancer care.
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Access the Components of Care and Oral Oncolytics Studies
Click here to download the Components of Care Study summary
Click here to download the Oral Oncolytics Study summary.
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Access CMS Analysis on Health Care Reform Legislation
Download a copy of the memo from the CMS actuary on the costs and impact of health care reform law.
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Access the IOM Report on the NCI Clinical Trial Program
Click here to download a brief of the report, A National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century: Reinvigorating the NCI Cooperative Group Program.
Click here to download the actual report.
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Access Email Addresses for Congressional Health Staff
Here is a list of all House and Senate health staff and contact information.
Click here to access a database of the email addresses of health legislative assistants. The database is sorted by House (Democrats and Republicans) and Senate (Democrats and...
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Access the COA “Must Read” List
Here is the COA “Must Read” list for all oncology professionals:
Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer
On-line articles:
The Cost Conundrum (The New Yorker, 6/1/09)
What You Don’t Know Might Kill You; The right doctors can make all...
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Access Information on the Health Care Reform Bill
Click here for a summary complied by House Democrats.
Click herefor a section analysis.
Click here for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the bill.
Click here to read the entire bill online. (It is “Text of the bill as reported (reported...
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Access a Summary of House and Senate Health Care Reform Bills
Here is a summary prepared by House staff based on CBO estimates.
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Invite Your Members of Congress to Your Practice
Your Members of Congress are home through Labor Day. Especially during the summer intense health care debate, you need to reach out to your Members of Congress, both Representatives and Senators, and their staff to have your voice and issues heard.
The...
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Read This Report on Cancer Survival in the U.S.
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Access the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
Here is the final rule issued by CMS.
Click here to download 2010 Medicare PFS 2009-26502_PI.pdf
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Access House Letter from Representatives to Stop Medicare Cuts
Click here to access the letter sent to HHS Secretary Sebelius signed by the 113 Representatives.
Click here to access a list by state of the 113 Representatives.
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Access COA’s Comments to CMS on Severe Medicare Cuts
COA has submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the planned Medicare reimbursement cuts for cancer care. These include severe payment reductions for medical oncology, diagnostic imaging, and radiation oncology.
COA...
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Access the OIG Report on Non-Physician Services
Click here to download the OIG report.
Here is the summary of the report issued by the OIG.
In the first 3 months of 2007, when Medicare allowed physicians more
than 24 hours of services in a day, nonphysicians performed half of the
services and unqualified...
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Access House and Senate Health Care Reform Bills and Summaries
Click here to download a copy of the summary of House bill and click here to download the actual legislation. Click here to download a copy of the summary of Senate HELP bill and click here to download the actual legislation.
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Read What President Obama Views as Must Reading on Healthcare Reform
Click here to read The Cost Conundrum by Atul Gawande. It’s providing a conceptual blueprint for healthcare reform. Then click here to read what physicians from McAllen, Texas are saying about the article.
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New Webinar on Components of Care Survey
Watch Ricky Newton’s Informational webinar
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