Beginning Oct. 1, the Mass General Brigham Health Plan will remove Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from its Medicare Advantage network. Mass General Brigham Health Plan operates and makes network decisions “separately, independently and without influence from” the Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General…
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In July, the FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence published three updated clinical trial eligibility guidance documents. The move comes after the agency’s April announcement that it was conducting its first real-time clinical trials in partnership with Houston-based University of Texas…
The FDA has alerted patients who had mammograms at Mammography Center of Monterey (Calif.) on or after Dec. 22, 2023, to possible quality problems with their mammograms. The facility failed an additional mammography review, with some deficiencies in clinical image…
As colorectal cancer incidence grows among younger adults and patients have more screening options than ever before, insurance coverage may not be keeping up. Adults younger than 65 account for 45% of all newly diagnosed colorectal cancer cases in the…
The National Cancer Institute has renewed Sacramento-based UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center’s “comprehensive” designation. The renewed designation includes a five-year grant of about $18 million, according to an Aug. 17 news release from UC Davis. The cancer center earned NCI…
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A Detroit cancer center has filed a lawsuit against Tenet Healthcare’s Detroit Medical Center and several of its affiliated hospitals, alleging DMC threatened to scale back or terminate services critical to Karmanos’ operations amid a long-running contract dispute — claims…
The American College of Surgeons has developed an accreditation for rural hospitals that provide cancer care. Commission on Cancer Rural Cancer Program Accreditation aims to address the approximately 15% higher cancer death rate in rural communities compared to urban areas,…
The Association for Clinical Oncology has submitted comments to CMS over concerns that work requirements included in the agency’s interim final rule, published June 1, would increase administrative burden for both cancer patients and physicians. Under HR 1, low-income, nonpregnant…