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Pennsylvania Decision to Improve Access to Health Care Will Save Lives and Money
Pennsylvania Decision to Improve Access to Health Care Will Save Lives and Money More Than Half a Million Pennsylvanians Will Have Security of Access to Lifesaving Cancer Screenings and Treatment Harrisburg, PA – August 28, 2014 – Governor Tom Corbett today chose to improve access to health coverage through private health care options for thousands of hard-working, low-income state residents. Diane Phillips, Government Relations ...
Survey: Cancer Patients Increasingly Face COVID-19 Health Impact
Washington —Cancer patients and survivors are finding it increasingly challenging to get necessary health care as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Many are experiencing financial stress and mental health issues as they try to navigate the difficult health and economic environment. An American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) ...
Pennsylvania Prioritizes Access to Care for Cancer Patients
HARRISBURG, PA – November 3, 2022 –Earlier today, Governor Wolf signed legislation to improve access to care for cancer patients across the state. Senate Bill 225, now Act 146, is a vital new law that will curb restrictive prior authorization and step therapy practices imposed by health insurers. Prior authorization requires physicians to obtain approval from insurers before prescribing medication or moving forward with a ... CAN thanks Senator Kristin Phillips-Hill for her leadership on this critical legislation. ACS CAN looks forward to the impact this will have on health care delivery in Pennsylvania. ### About ACS CAN The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) makes cancer a top priority for ...
Survey: COVID-19 Affecting Patients’ Access to Cancer Care
Washington, D.C.—Cancer patients and those who’ve recently completed treatment are finding it challenging to get necessary health care in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and many are experiencing financial stress trying to afford care in an increasingly difficult economic ... services to determine if a patient’s cancer had grown or returned (20%); access to supportive services, including physical therapy or mental health care (20%); and access to surgical procedures (8%). Among just the respondents who remain in active treatment, more than a quarter (27%) ...
Patient advocates & public health leaders rally around proposed investment to alleviate medical debt in Pennsylvania
... impact of disease on patients and families, a new study from the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that medical debt is associated with worse health status, more premature deaths and higher mortality rates. Researchers with the ACS have found that medical debt was associated with more days of poor physical and mental health, more years of life lost and higher mortality rates for all-cause and leading causes of death at the county level in the United States. The ... Shapiro’s Executive Budget to invest $4 million to wipe out as much as $400 million in Pennsylvanians’ medical debt. “The costs of cancer care are out of reach for many Pennsylvanians, which may lead to delayed treatment and impossible choices between accessing life-saving healthcare ...
COVID19: Patient advocates speak out against increasingly restrictive health insurance processes amid pandemic
... prioritize HB 1194 (SB 920). If passed, the bill would curb restrictive prior authorization and step therapy (fail first) practices imposed by health insurers. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many states and insurers have temporarily lifted these restrictions in an effort to provide greater access to care. However, patient advocates are warning the issue goes much deeper than our present environment. Prior authorization and step therapy are ... cancer. For more information please visit www.fightcancer.org. 1 1 COVID19: Patient advocates speak out against increasingly restrictive health insurance processes amid pandemic ...
Patient Advocates Respond to Governor Shapiro Executive Budget
... year. In his budget address, Governor Shapiro proposed to maintain funding for key cancer prevention and detection programs and acknowledged health care costs and price transparency as a continued area of interest, which secured high praise from patient advocates concerned over the role cancer ... plays in limiting Pennsylvanians’ financial mobility. Advocates are hopeful that the budget negotiation process yields progress on additional health care affordability issues, including Pennsylvanians’ access to paid leave, medical debt relief and lifesaving medications. “Concerns ...
ACS CAN Urges Wolf to Voice Concerns About Impact of AHCA on State Cancer Burden Ahead of Discussions with Senate Leadership
... This letter follows up on my earlier communication this year regarding federal legislation to overturn many provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Given the House of Representatives’ passage of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the ongoing discussions in the Senate, we want to provide you with our best information on the potential impact on ... by the House, AHCA could leave cancer patients and survivors - young, old and across all income ranges – unable to access or keep quality health insurance. The bill would create a state-by-state coverage patchwork in which individuals with pre-existing conditions could be charged more ...
Advocates Set Sights on Improving Access to Cancer Prevention & Detection, Reducing Burden of Disease for PA Patients in 2025
... patients. Beginning in the new year, Act 39 of 2024 will make it so that all patients who can benefit and are insured through a state-regulated health plan will receive coverage for biomarker testing, a game changer in the fight against cancer and an essential step in accessing precision medicine treatments. Pennsylvanians also secured a victory for access to care through Act 42 of 2024, the newly enacted legislation that includes telemedicine as a covered benefit in the Commonwealth. “This legislative ... so that a person’s economic status does not determine whether or not they have the ability to detect and survive cancer. “Soaring health care costs have made it so that patients are forced to take on medical debt and suffer through its cascading effects in order to receive ...
Poll Results: Pennsylvania Medicaid Expansion
... shows that registered voters in Pennsylvania strongly agree that the state should accept federal funds that are available to broaden access to health coverage through Medicaid. By a margin of 65 percent to 25 percent, Pennsylvania voters support such a move, which would provide more 520,000 low-income Pennsylvanians with access to lifesaving preventive care and treatments for cancer and other serious diseases. The poll, conducted by a bipartisan pair of polling firms, Perry Undem and GS Strategy ... to no less than 90 percent of the costs. “Pennsylvania has an opportunity to provide thousands of currently uninsured people with lifesaving health coverage through Medicaid, and public sentiment is decidedly in favor of using available federal dollars to pay for it,” said Diane ...
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