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DE SCR25
Concurrent Resolution
Status
6/11/2015
Primary Sponsor
Harris McDowell
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AI Summary
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Directs Delaware's Insurance Commissioner and Department of Health and Social Services to work with insurance companies and the medical community to establish policies promoting 100% issuance of Survivor Care Plans to cancer survivors within five years.
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Defines Survivorship Care Plans as written documents that coordinate primary and follow-up cancer care, including treatment history, diagnostics, tumor characteristics, recovery information, screening recommendations, and referrals to follow-up providers.
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Requires annual determination by the Insurance Commissioner and Department of Health and Social Services on whether savings from preventative treatment using survivor care plans exceed the costs of issuing them.
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Recognizes approximately 13 million cancer survivors in the United States as of 2013, with projections to reach 18 million by 2022, and notes that over 60% of cancer survivors live at least five years past diagnosis.
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Addresses the need to treat cancer as a long-term chronic disease rather than an acute disease and improve coordination between oncologists and primary care physicians.
Legislative Description
Supporting A Goal Of A 100% Issuance Rate Of Survivor Care Plans To Cancer Survivors.
Last Action
Introduced in House and assigned to Health & Human Development Committee
6/11/2015