While the war on health care reform continues, there is another battle raging now: the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will cut payments further starting in 2010 for each of the major components of cancer diagnosis and care -- chemotherapy, consultations, diagnostic imaging and therapeutic radiation. Starting in January, payment for the administration of life-saving cancer drugs will be cut by 5 percent, with further cuts increasing to almost 20% by 2013. A disaster in cancer care delivery is imminent.
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