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Educational ProgramsMedicare & Oncology

 

 

California Physicians Must Check CURES Database
Prior To Prescribing Effective October 2, 2018
CMA CURES Resources

MBC CURES Flyer

 

CMA's Guide for Patients Impacted by Wildfires

 

Read about Medicare's New Opioid Prescribing Policies

 

Read ANCO's 2018 Staff Salary Survey Report

 

Read ANCO's 2018 Annual Report

 

Read ASCO's Clinical Care Advances 2018

 

ASCO & ONCOLOGY in ACTION
From health care reform to physician reimbursement to access to quality care, visit www.asco.org/asco-in-action for timely information on research policy, clinical affairs, government relations, and quality of care issues that affect your practice, cancer care, and cancer research.


Podcasts feature, amongst others:

ASCO Guidelines
ASCO on Financial Toxicity
October 23, ASCO CEO Discusses New Studies on Patient Financial Toxity and Opioid Use Risks

October 9, Are Pharmacy Benefit Managers Putting Personal Profits Ahead of Patient Access?
August 28, ASCO Delegation to AMA Discusses Policy Priorities
August 7, ASCO CEO Addresses Concerns with 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
and Quality Payment Program Proposed Rule
May 29, What RIght-to-Try Legislation Means for You and Your Patients

May 15, What Oncologists Need to Know about Biosimilars

March 20, What Practices Need to Know and Do for QPP in 2018


Use ASCO's New ACT Network to engage with Congressional Represenatatives on current legislation impacting cancer care.
• Urge Congress to Support the Clinical Treatment Act

• Provide an Example of Step Therapy and/or Prior Authorization Protocols
Impacting Patient Care
• Urge Your Representative to Cosponsor the Cancer Drug Parity Act

Urge Your Representative to Cosponsor te Restoring the Patients Voide Act of 2017

 

ASCO's Position Statement on Pharmacy Benefit Management Programs (PBMs)

 

ASCO's Evaluating Oncology Clinical Pathways Programs Checklist
Read ASCO's Oncology Clinical Pathways:
Charting the Landscape of Pathway Providers

Read ASCO's Policy Statement on Clinical Pathways in Oncology

Learn More About Anthem's
Cancer Care Quality Program Treatment Pathways
Read ANCO's Comments and Anthem's Response

 

USP's Draft Chapter 797

ASCO's Comments on USP's Draft Chapter 797
ASCO's FAQs on USP800--Postponed until December 1, 2019

USP's FAQs on Hazardous Drugs--
Handling in Healthcare Settings (General Chapter 800)

 

ASCO's Practice Resources
Practice Central, Practice Engagement Program,

ASCO University, QOPI, CancerLinQ
, & Cancer.Net

 

ASCO's Disaster Preparation and Assistance Resources

ASCO's Conquer Cancer Foundation's
Managing Your Cancer Care During a Weather Emergency or Disaster

 

ASCO's Clinical Practice Guidelines

 

MGMA's Business Tax Changes That Will Impact Medical Practices
Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

 

California's Prescription Drug Prior Authorization Form and FAQs

 

View a Short Video on How to Avoid Common Documentation Errors
www.Top5ClaimsMistakesVideo.com

 

DRUG SHORTAGES
Click here for FDA Information about IV fluid shortages

Click here for current FDA information about drug shortages.
Click here for current ASHP information about drug shortages.

 

ANCO CORPORATE MEMBER AND OTHER
DRUG REIMBURSEMENT & PATIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM RESOURCES

Updated information is available here.

 

ANCO MEMBER RESOURCES AT DMHC & CMA
Resources to help you address third-party payer problems
at the Department of Managed Health Care and California Medical Association

 

ANCO FAX NEWS & The ANCO Directory of Members
Download the latest editions here.

 

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

 

ANCO's Medicare Regulations 2019
(Webinar, January 3, 12:30PM Pacific--Register)

 

ASCO's Gastrointestinal Cancers Sympoosium:
Multidisciplinary Treatment, Personalized Care, Optimal Outcomes
(ASCO, San Francisco, January 17-19)


Best of SABCS San Francisco
(The Claremont Hotel, January 26)

 

 

Stanford's Review of the 60th Annual ASH Meeting
(The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, January 26)

 

ASCO's Genitourinary Cancers Symposium
(ASCO, San Francisco, February 14-16)

 

ASCO-SITC's Clinical Immuno-Oncology Symposium
(ASCO-SITC, San Francisco, February 28-March 2)

 

Download the meeting announcement; register at www.multicancers.org

 

DID YOU MISS THESE ANCO AND/OR MOASC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS?
(DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATIONS)

 

ASCO's 2019 Medicare Reimbursement --Final Rules Update

 

ANCO's 4Q2018 Hematologic Malignancies Updates

Joseph Tuscano, M.D., An Update in the Treatment of Lymphoma
Jeffrey Wolf, M.D., Myeloma: Closer to a Cure than Ever Before

Tian Zhang, M.D., Acute Myeloid Leukemia: The Past, the Present, the Future

Khoan Vu, M.D., Case Presentations: Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma

 

ANCO's 3Q2018 Hematologic Malignancies Updates
Tom Martin, M.D., Multiple Myeloma: ANCO Conference 2018

Joseph Tuscano, M.D., An Update in the Treatment of Lymphoma
Tian Zhang, M.D., Acute Myeloid Leukemia: The Past, the Present, the Future

Shyam Patel, M.D., Case Presentations

 


ANCO's ASCO Highlights 2018

Brian A. Jonas, M.D., Ph.D., ANCO: ASCO Highlights 2018 Hematologic Malignancies

Joel W. Neal, M.D., Ph.D., Best of ASCO--Lung Cancer

Tyler Paul Johnson, M.D., ASCO HIghlights: Gastrointestinal Cancer

Andrea L. Harzstark, M.D., ASCO GU Update

Michael A. Bookman, M.D., A Perspective on Gynecologic Cancers: ASCO 2018

Joshua Gruber, M.D., Ph.D. ANCO's ASCO Highlights 2018: Breast Cancer Track

Donald I. Abrams, M.D., Cannabis in Cancer Care: What We Didn't Learn at ASCO

 

ANCO's 2Q2018 Hematologic Malignancies Updates
Gabriel Mannis, M.D., ANCO Hematologic Malignancies Update: Acute Leukemia

Joseph Tuscano, M.D., An Update in the Treatment of Lymphoma
Jeffrey Wolf, M.D., Myeloma: Closer to a Cure than Ever Before

Nseem Esteghamat, M.D., ANCO Hematologic Malignancies Updates: Leukemias, Lymphomas, and Myeloma

 

18th Multidisciplinary Management of Cancers:
A Case-based Approach

Tumor Board Cases

 

Sara Hurvitz, M.D., Updates in Treatment of  HER2+ Disease

Jo Chien, M.D., Optimal Treatment of Hormone Receptor Positive Disease

Hope S. Rugo, M.D., Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer

Melinda L. Telli, M.D., Novel Therapeutics for Advanced Breast Cancer

Michael D. Alvarado, M.D., Advances in Approaches to Local-Regional Disease

Virginia Kaklamani, M.D., SABCS 2017 Breast Cancer Updates: Survivorship

Laura J van't Veer, Ph.D., New Directions in Translational Research, Prognostic Markers, and Resistance Mechanisms

Instructions for attendees on how to claim their CME credits

 

ANCO's Medicare Reimbursement for Oncology 2018
Bobbi Buell's Hot Topics in Reimbursement 2018

Bobbi Buell's Revenue Cycle State of the State

 

ANCO's 4Q2017 Hematologic Malignancies Updates
Mehrdad Abedi's Updates in Hematology: ANCO 2017

Sandy Wong's Updates on the Treatments of Multiple Myeloma and Light-Chain Amyloidosis

Leena Rahmat's Clinical Case Studies

 

ANCO's California's End of Life Options Act Webinar

Listen/watch to the webinar (apologies for the truncated beginning of this recording)

Download the slides and the Act

Medical Board of California Resources
California Hospital Association's Guidance

Califormia Medical Association's Guidance

POLST and Death with Dignity Statutes

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