Sec. 8. Survivorship care demonstration program
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The Secretary shall carry out a demonstration program for a period of 5 years consisting of awarding grants to improve the quality of cancer survivorship care. The Secretary shall initiate the demonstration program under this section not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act. The Secretary shall ensure that grants are awarded under this section to improve the quality of cancer survivorship care at a wide diversity of sites, including— in urban, suburban, rural, and Tribal areas; and cancer care sites including cancer centers, academic health centers, federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, physician offices, Tribal organizations, community-based health care providers, and health care providers serving medically underserved areas.
The demonstration program under this section shall be designed to ensure the development of a variety of models for survivorship care that will permit evaluation of a variety of care strategies, including— utilization of navigators to assist survivors in obtaining survivorship care; employment of risk-stratification to better determine the nature and intensity of services that survivors require; transitions of care from cancer care providers to primary care providers, through transition-of-care models that involve collaboration between cancer care specialists and primary care providers; the training needs of primary care providers to be better equipped to work with survivors in primary care settings; utilization of survivorship care plans to facilitate coordination of survivorship care; experimentation with providing cancer survivorship care at home; use of information technology to plan and coordinate care to improve the consistent identification, collection, and measurement of all forms of patient experience data, including patient-reported outcomes of patient-reported symptoms and quality-of-life measures; and expansion of existing successful models of survivorship care.
The Secretary shall— develop a plan for evaluating the projects that are conducted as part of the demonstration program under this section; and not later than 18 months after the end of the 5-year demonstration program, complete such evaluation and submit a report to the Congress on the results of such evaluation.