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House Committees Hold Hearings on Medicare Payments, Quality Care, and Pay for Performance

In July, two subcommittees in the House of Representatives—the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health, and the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health—held hearings to address issues important to the cancer community. ASCO testified at both of these hearings to bring forward the concerns cancer care providers have regarding their ability to continue to provide quality care for people with cancer.

At both hearings, ASCO encouraged the members of each Committee to support the following initiatives:

• Allow for appropriate reimbursement for chemotherapy drugs through Medicare
  
• Support a multiyear extension of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2006 oncology . . . [Click for More]

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