Colorectal Cancer Screening Project | 2023-Breakout Discussion Zoom Room 4

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Video Summary

The video features a group of individuals having a discussion about key political policy interventions and ACS actions related to increasing the follow-up colonoscopy rate for uninsured and underinsured patients with positive stool tests. The participants include Molly McDonald from Fight for Our Future, Alpha Banks from a private practice in Maryland, Brian Jacobson from Mass General Hospital, Donald Palmzada from ASG, Ophelia Bonta from Med Chi, and Sonny Anderson from the California Cervical Cancer Coalition. They discuss various ideas such as increased funding for screening services, collaboration between community-based partners, developing standardized toolkits for state regulators, providing sustainable funding through state legislatures, and improving access to Medicaid coverage for colonoscopies. They also address issues related to patient navigation, defining and measuring screening colonoscopies, and ensuring zero-cost preps for patients. The discussion highlights the need for policy interventions to address these issues, including incentivizing GI practices to accept Medicaid patients, developing a quality measure for colonoscopies after positive stool tests, increasing funding for the CRCCP program, and developing a state funding stream for colonoscopies. The participants also suggest creating a packet to promote state funding and developing a standardized process to define and measure screening colonoscopies.

Keywords

follow-up colonoscopy rate

uninsured patients

positive stool tests

increased funding

patient navigation

screening colonoscopies

state funding stream