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DE SCR25

Concurrent Resolution

Status

Engrossed

6/11/2015

Primary Sponsor

Harris McDowell

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Origin

Senate

148th General Assembly

AI Summary

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Health & Human Development7/1/2015

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