Cancer Care: New Support and Insurance Coverage for Survivors
A bill to address the health of cancer survivors and unmet needs that survivors face through the entire continuum of care from diagnosis through active treatment and posttreatment, in order to improve survivorship, treatment, transition to recovery and beyond, quality of life and palliative care, and long-term health outcomes, including by developing a minimum standard of care for cancer survivorship, irrespective of the type of cancer, a survivor's background, or forthcoming survivorship needs, and for other purposes.
A senate committee must act next: committee consideration.
While cancer support is often popular, this bill adds significant new costs to Medicare and Medicaid, which usually leads to long debates in Congress.
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States that provide CHIP pregnancy-related assistance would be required to include cancer fertility services for eligible low-income pregnant individuals, with no added cost-sharing. This is a narrow provision affecting pregnant CHIP enrollees who have had or are undergoing cancer treatment.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Introduced in Senate
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and a bipartisan group reintroduced the Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act to close gaps in care. The bill requires Medicare to cover personalized survivorship plans and mandates Medicaid coverage for fertility preservation services for survivors.
The Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act (H.R. 8839) proposes a new Medicare payment model for survivorship care planning. It also expands Medicaid to cover transition services for pediatric survivors and fertility preservation for those at risk of treatment-induced infertility.
Lawmakers are pushing H.R. 8839 to address the 'unmet needs' of the growing survivor population. The bill would create an Office of Cancer Survivorship at the NCI and require insurance coverage for fertility services, a major concern for the increasing number of young adult cancer survivors.
No votes or related bills recorded for this bill yet.
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
A bill to address the health of cancer survivors and unmet needs that survivors face through the entire continuum of care from diagnosis through active treatment and posttreatment, in order to improve survivorship, treatment, transition to recovery and beyond, quality of life and palliative care, and long-term health outcomes, including by developing a minimum standard of care for cancer survivorship, irrespective of the type of cancer, a survivor's background, or forthcoming survivorship needs, and for other purposes.
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