Easier access to telehealth services granted during the COVID-19 public health emergency allowed hundreds of thousands of Medicare patients in rural areas to obtain virtual care in the privacy of their homes, saving them the time, money, and the risk of getting an infection in traveling to a distant medical facility to receive it.

The fight over covid-era health insurance subsidies that could trigger a government shutdown highlights what even supporters of the Affordable Care Act fight admit is a flaw in the original law: It wasn’t generous enough to make plans affordable.

The Ways and Means Committee recently approved H.R. 842, the Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act – introduced by Representatives Jodey Arrington (TX-19) and Terri Sewell (AL-07) and named in honor of Representative Sewell’s late mother – to ensure timely access to innovative early-detection cancer screenings for Medicare beneficiaries.

U.S. pharmaceutical lobby group PhRMA said on Monday it would launch a new website in January to help patients buy prescription drugs directly from manufacturers, bypassing pharmacy benefit managers and other middlemen.

Supporting a friend, colleague or loved one who has cancer is a delicate balancing act.

Real-world studies represent an important step in the medical research process, Dr. Alexander Spira explained in an interview with CURE.

As novel treatments such as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy, bispecific antibodies, and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) testing reshape cancer care, ensuring access for rural and under-resourced communities remains a major concern.

Cancer during pregnancy is rare but increasingly recognized as maternal age rises and non-invasive prenatal testing becomes more common, according to research published in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO’s) new report, Health Care Consolidation: Published Estimates of the Extent and Effects of Physician Consolidation, reinforces what the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) has been saying for years: as physicians are bought out or forced to close their practices by hospital systems or insurers, patients suffer from higher costs, reduced care access, and often lower quality of care.

Lalan Wilfong, MD, a medical oncologist/hematologist with Texas Oncology and physician liaison for value-based care for McKesson Specialty Health, discussed how artificial intelligence (AI) prediction models could improve end-of-life care for patients with cancer, per his presentation at the Inaugural MiBA Community Summit.