In a letter to Reps. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) and Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), co-sponsors of the Medicare Physician Payment Innovation Act, ASCO applauds the legislation for proposing to repeal the sustainable growth rate and reform the Medicare reimbursement system. The bill also averts scheduled reimbursement cuts for 2014, expands testing of new payment models and provides options for physicians to transition to new payment models.

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One Voice Against Cancer, a coalition of public interest groups—including ASCO—representing millions of cancer researchers, physicians, pa...

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In written testimony to Congress on April 26, ASCO President Sandra M. Swain, MD, FACP, urged legislators to support a “strong federal investmen...

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The House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees recently requested feedback from ASCO and other medical societies on its second draft of their sustainable growth rate reform proposal. ASCO’s response underscores the importance of physician leadership and testing in the areas of quality measurement and development of new payment models as part of SGR reform.

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected the tobacco industry's challenge to a federal law that would require graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging. 

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Today, out of concern for public safety, Congress provided the Federal Aviation Administration enhanced flexibility in application of sequestration related cuts, including reversal of furlough requirements imposed on air traffic controllers. Individuals with cancer deserve no less.  

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ASCO has submitted comments to the National Cancer Institute on its proposed NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP), which would integrate three current NCI programs: the Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP), the Minority-Based CCOP (MB-CCOP), and the NCI Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP).

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ASCO along with the Community Oncology Alliance, ION Solutions and The US Oncology Network commended a bipartisan group of 124 lawmakers in the U.S House of Representatives who sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expressing concern that Medicare cuts to critical cancer medications, which took effect on April 1 as part of the budget sequester.

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