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While Medicare sequester cuts are causing financial pain, Wound Care Advantage has a solution to make up lost revenue. Los Angeles (PRWEB) June 10, 2013 In April, Hospitals began losing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the 2 percent Medicare sequester cuts. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/02/budget-cuts-affect-you/1958651/ Most hospitals are just now beginning to feel the financial pain of these cuts. Los Angeles based Wound Care Advantage, (WCA) a national leader...

New Statewide Survey Shows Overwhelming Public Support to Reverse Medi-Cal Cuts SAN LEANDRO, Calif., May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citing devastating impacts on California's most vulnerable patients, local hospital leaders joined with physicians and health care workers in Alameda County today to urge state officials to halt pending Medi-Cal payment cuts. The cuts stem from legislation originally enacted by the passage of AB 97 in 2011. Although the payment reductions...

Across-the-board cuts threaten innovation and patient access to new technologies (LA JOLLA, Calif.) (PRWEB) May 24, 2013 CHI-California Healthcare Institute today submitted a letter to House Appropriators and the California congressional delegation, joined by over 40 biomedical companies, urging them to restore sequestered industry user fees paid to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2013, and to ensure that future across-the-board cuts will not include user fees paid to FDA, as...

Bill Would Help Seniors and Community Cancer Clinics by Offsetting Some of the Impact of the Devastating Sequestration Cuts WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A majority of cancer patients receive their treatment at community clinics. Today, that care is being threatened by a payment calculation in Medicare that has made it increasingly difficult for local clinics to absorb the additional cuts imposed by sequestration. Bipartisan legislation (S. 806) introduced by Senators Pat...

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, one of the nation's top cancer research and prevention centers and pioneer of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation, today called on Congress to support restoring full funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which supports pioneering research that saves lives. Funding was recently cut due to sequestration. The U.S. Senate Subcommittee of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education...

- Cancer Care Community Praises Lawmakers for Urging CMS to Examine Impact of Sequester Cuts on Medicare Patients - WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Community Oncology Alliance (COA), ION Solutions and The US Oncology Network today 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 (CMS) expressing concern that...

Cuts to Cancer Drugs and Services Imperil Oncologists' Treatment of Medicare Patients WASHINGTON, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Community Oncology Alliance (COA), in conjunction with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), International Oncology Network/AmerisourceBergen, and the US Oncology Network, issued a joint statement on the crippling effects of sequestration cuts to cancer drugs and services which began April 1, 2013. The organizations also sent letters to...

Just-Released Survey of Oncology Providers Shows Sequestration Imperils Cancer Care Delivery System Already Under Pressure WASHINGTON, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Community Oncology Alliance (COA) announced today the results of a national survey of oncology providers about the impact of the sequestration cuts to Medicare payments for cancer drugs and services effective April 1, 2013. The survey revealed that the planned sequestration cuts to cancer drugs and services will...

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Urges Members Of Congress To Protect Cancer Research MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network is calling attention to the potential affects sequestration will have on medical research, and specifically pancreatic cancer research. The onset of sequestration could lead to significant and harmful cuts to the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The sequester, with its devastating cuts to virtually every line item in the federal budget, is now forcing our nation to take a troubling step backward in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The cuts mean fewer chances for people to learn their HIV status, get the medical care they need to stay healthy, and avoid passing the virus on to others. It is now incumbent upon Congress to restore these funds as quickly as possible to minimize...