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The Cancer Support Community supports H.R. 1526 / S. 765, the Reducing Hereditary Cancer Act to create a new coverage pathway for people on Medicare with a known genetic mutation in the family to access medical guideline recommended cancer screenings and risk-reducing surgeries, when necessary and appropriate. This legislation is important to closing testing, screening, and risk-reducing intervention gaps for Medicare beneficiaries.

The Cancer Support Community supports H.R. 2940/S. 1355, the Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions to End Up Surging Resistance (PASTEUR) Act, to establish a program to develop antimicrobial innovations targeting the most challenging pathogens and most life-threatening infections. The crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) causes reduced treatment options and efficacy, increases the spread of infection, therefore increasing morbidity and mortality rates. This legislation would address this crisis by supporting the development of new antimicrobials, decreasing resistance that results from the over prescription of current drugs. The PASTEUR Act would create a committee of federal agents, doctors, and representatives from top health and medical organizations to develop evidence-based action plans and regulations to combat disease and antimicrobial resistance. This bill would encourage drug development to treat such drug-resistant infections, without incentivizing increased volume and quality of sales, whose overconsumption causes this resistance, combatting this major public health issue.

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The Cancer Support Community supports H.R. 2630/S. 652, the Safe Step Act, to establish readily available processes for doctors to seek exceptions to step therapy. This legislation amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to create reasonable guardrails on the use of step therapy, increasing timely access to treatment and reducing administrative costs and burdens to the healthcare system.

The Cancer Support Community supports S.B. 2039, the Cancer Drug Parity Act, to end out-of-pocket cost disparities for orally administered cancer drug treatments under federally regulated group health plans. This legislation ensures that any health plan covering cancer care offers patients the same level of cost-sharing for all forms of medicine, creating equitable access.

The Cancer Support Community supports Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024, to permanently extend telehealth flexibilities under Medicare coverage.

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The Cancer Support Community supports H.R. 830/S. 1375, the Help Ensure Lower Patient Copays (HELP Copays) Act, and similar state legislation to ban copay accumulator adjustment programs that prohibit manufacturer copay assistance from being counted toward a patient’s annual deductible and/or maximum out-of-pocket cost sharing requirements.

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