HillCoHEALTH CEO and Advisory Staff Discuss Impact of Healthcare Reform on Cancer Care Delivery

Nov. 12, 2010 - PRLog -- November 12, 2010 – Marc Samuels, CEO, and Alissa Pereira, Director, Healthcare Advisory and Public Policy Practice, were published recently in an article for the journal Cancer, entitled “The Implications of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act on Cancer Care Delivery.”

The article included multiple views from Samuels, Pereira, and faculty and staff of the U. T. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center related to seminal issues in health care reform that affect cancer care delivery, economics and practice.

HillCo HEALTH has a large footprint in cancer care economic and reimbursement consulting to providers, payers, institutions and manufacturers. The company and its principals have been involved with many of the most seminal reimbursement issues in Medicare and Medicaid as well as commercial reimbursement for both inline and pipeline items, devices, biological and pharmaceuticals. Some of the activities we have pursued for clients, include readiness assessment and launch planning under Medicare Parts A, B, C and Part D; Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis and creation of value and clinical dossiers for commercial payer coverage; initiating and defending coding and coverage strategies to better position products including technology assessments, local and national coverage decisions; and hosting focus groups and advisory board(s) as necessary to provide strategic insight into pricing and coverage for new or changes to existing product line and pipeline developments.

The Implications of the 2010 Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act and the
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act
on Cancer Care Delivery

In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. This legislation attempts to address cost control and improve the quality of health- care in the United States. Cancer is a major health problem in the United States and the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 80. Therefore, cancer care providers need to be fully engaged in ongoing discussions regarding quality measurement and care delivery. With the optimum level of collaboration and support, the proposals in the legislation can be properly structured to deliver improved access to care via better delivery systems, as well as more appropriate reimbursement to advance the prevention and treatment of cancer.

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HillCo HEALTH -- www.hillcohealth.com -- is a boutique group of seasoned principals providing advisory services including strategic policy planning, implications and solutions, reimbursement and coding insights and strategies and cross-payer advocacy. Through an unparalleled combination of reimbursement and public policy experience and strategic business expertise, our principals apply this knowledge as we counsel leaders of many of the most successful global healthcare financing, manufacturing and service entities in an evolving and complicated health care environment.