The Community Oncology Alliance (COA), a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and fostering community cancer care, announced today the results of a national survey of oncology providers on the impact of the sequester cut to Medicare payments for cancer drugs and services that took effect April 1, 2013

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Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC) bill, the Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2013 (H.R. 1416), continues to add cosponsors to stop the application of the sequester cut to cancer drugs. The bill is gaining support in the House, especially after Congress passed legislation to stop flight delays caused by the sequester.

Here is the list of the 65 cosponsors to Congresswoman Ellmers' bill (H.R. 1416).

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In a letter to the President, House and Senate GOP leadership tell the President that they will not nominate anyone to the Independent Payment Advisor Board.

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SAO PAULO — Latin America's growing prosperity is fueling a cancer epidemic that threatens to overwhelm the region unless governments take urgent preventive action, a study published on Friday warned.

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We learned this week, yet again, that if you make enough noise (and have the ear of members of Congress and a well-funded lobby shop in the nation's capital) you can be spared the pain caused by government belt-tightening.

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Fifty-four percent of U.S. workers prefer not to have more control over health insurance options because making such decisions is daunting, a survey says.

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Oncologists claim reduced Medicare funding, which took effect on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially. NBC’s Lisa Myers reports.

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Congress should have addressed deep cuts to cancer clinics before tackling airline delays caused by sequestration, people at several of those clinics said Friday

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Community Oncology Alliance Executive Director Ted Okon on the impact of the sequester on government cancer research.

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Oncologists hit by sequester budget cuts to the cost of purchasing and administering cancer drugs are hoping that the potentially devastating impact on Medicare cancer patients will force a quick legislative fix in Congress.

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The sequester has caused US members of Congress to face flights delays, and it’s caused seniors to be turned away from chemotherapy. Guess which one the US Senate fixed last night?

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Hospitals that take part in CMS' Inpatient Quality Reporting Program will receive 0.8% in extra payments, while those not successfully participating would have payments reduced by 2%, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed on Friday to the USA's 3,400 acute care hospitals.

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The health-care sector, one of the last redoubts of stable and well-paying jobs for less-educated workers, is beginning to look less secure.

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I used to believe that a mammogram saved my life. I even wrote that in the pages of this magazine. It was 1996, and I had just turned 35 when my doctor sent me for an initial screening — a relatively common practice at the time — that would serve as a base line when I began annual mammograms at 40.

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With the cost of some lifesaving cancer drugs exceeding $100,000 a year, more than 100 influential cancer specialists from around the world have taken the unusual step of banding together in hopes of persuading some leading pharmaceutical companies to bring prices down.

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ust a few days after the sequester budget cuts went into effect on April 1, the Washington Post published a story about how oncologists were turning away thousands of Medicare patients because the 2 percent cut made it too costly for them to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs

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At The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, patients get treatment in a personal setting. They're in the fight of their lives, battling cancer... and now Congress.

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Cuts to Medicare are driving Utah cancer clinics to turn away patients and refer them instead to hospitals for treatment.

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The government sequester cuts could start impacting some Medicare cancer patients in the Las Vegas valley who may have a harder time getting treatment.

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Cancer clinics in Utah have had to turn patients away due to federal budget cuts; patients can still go to hospitals for the treatments, but the costs can be higher than at other facilities.

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