{"id":48901,"date":"2009-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2009\/12\/03\/agreement-among-nebraska-health-insurers-will-benefit-nebraskans\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T19:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T00:22:34","slug":"agreement-among-nebraska-health-insurers-will-benefit-nebraskans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2009\/12\/03\/agreement-among-nebraska-health-insurers-will-benefit-nebraskans\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement among Nebraska health insurers will benefit Nebraskans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Contacts:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\">Senator Mike Gloor, (402) 471-2617, mgloor@leg.ne.gov<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\">Jan McKenzie, Nebraska Insurance Federation (402) 469-2290, janatnif@windstream.net<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\">Vicky Cerino, University of Nebraska Medical Center (402) 559-5190 vcerino@unmc.edu<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\">Dec. 3, 2009<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span><strong>Agreement among Nebraska health insurers will benefit Nebraskans<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">Nebraskans who are ill and considering participating in a clinical trial now will have a better idea of what their health insurance policies will cover.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">An agreement, which originally started out as a legislative bill, was approved by the members of the Nebraska Insurance Federation. The agreement provides guidelines for coverage of routine care for patients enrolled in phase II, II and IV clinical trials and is a model that can be used by health insurance carriers to allow consistency in coverage.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">Clinical trials produce medical breakthroughs by determining whether new methods of screening, prevention, diagnosis, or treatments can benefit patients. They are conducted in hospitals, clinics and private practice offices. Countless lives around the world have been saved and improved through advancements in medicine tested and verified through clinical trials, according to the National Institutes of Health.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">Nebraska State Sen. Mike Gloor of Grand Island, and others, worked with the federation on the agreement, which makes Nebraska one of 27 states with laws or cooperative agreements.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">&ldquo;The idea from the beginning has been to have consistent insurance coverage that individuals, doctors and hospitals could rely on when creating a treatment regimen to combat serious illness,&rdquo; Gloor said. &ldquo;The goal is to be able to get treatment started right away and to have confidence in health insurance coverage for that treatment.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: black\">Sometimes a health plan may define clinical trials as &ldquo;experimental&rdquo; or &ldquo;investigational,&rdquo; until <\/span>proven safe and effective. <span style=\"color: black\">When this happens, health insurance may not cover some of the costs of what is actually routine care which may include doctor visits, hospital stays, and tests or treatments that would be conducted even if not taking part in a clinical trial.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">Much like the coverage currently afforded Medicare patients, Gloor said the language of the agreement will provide patients, as well as their physicians, a greater comfort level when considering clinical trial participation and treatment.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">The federation agreement covers clinical trials that have been approved by one of five organizations &#8212; the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Department of Defense, Veteran&rsquo;s Administration and the National Cancer Institute.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">&ldquo;The federation was pleased to work with Senator Gloor and health system administrators on crafting this agreement, said Jan McKenzie, executive director of the Nebraska Insurance Federation. &ldquo;This agreement is another example of health care providers and insurers working together on behalf of the citizens of our state.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">Most clinical studies conducted are approved by one of these organizations, said <span style=\"color: black\">Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Eppley Cancer Center.<\/span> Dr. Cowan was one of several experts asked by Gloor to testify about clinical trials before the Legislature&rsquo;s Banking, Insurance and Commerce Committee.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: black\">The biggest barrier to completing studies is that not enough people take part in them, Dr. Cowan said. He said fewer than 5 percent of adults with cancer take part in clinical trials.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">&ldquo;A significant increase in adult cancer survivors could be seen if many more patients enrolled in clinical trials,&rdquo; he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: black\">In 2009, more than 800 cancer medicines were being tested in clinical trials, according to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Not all will prove to be useful, but those that are may be delayed in getting approved because so few adults volunteer.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: black\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At UNMC, there are 102 active phase II, III and IV studies being conducted to test investigational medications, half of which involve cancer patients.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">&ldquo;I have cancer patients who had very little hope of survival, but because of their participation in a clinical trial, years were added to their lives,&rdquo; Dr. Cowan said. &ldquo;Patients deserve the opportunity to enroll in a clinical trial that may increase their chances of survival and ultimately the survival of others,&rdquo; Dr. Cowan said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-indent: 0.5in;line-height: normal\">He said the increased number of cancer survivors is related to clinical trials. Over the last 10 years, there&rsquo;s been an increase in survival in patients with cancer of 1 percent every year. Survivorship has increased by about 2 percent in breast cancer patients and 3 percent in prostate cancer patients.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=\"color: black\">In the last 30 years, the survival rate of children with many types of cancer has increased 50 percent or more,&rdquo; said Bruce Gordon, M.D., UNMC professor of pediatric hematology\/oncology and stem cell transplantation. &ldquo;The improvement has been, to a great extent due to what we have learned from large clinical trials.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\" align=\"center\">-30-<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;line-height: normal\" align=\"center\"><b>NEBRASKA INSURANCE FEDERATION 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