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A benefit that's there for employees when they need it most

Your employees deserve the best, and that starts with access to the latest knowledge.

Research shows that cancer outcomes are dramatically better at National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. But only 20% of cases are treated there.1,2 That’s why AccessHope connects your plan and your employees' community oncologists with NCI subspecialists, which can allow your employees to benefit from leading research, from the comfort of home.

We proudly partner with NCI centers to remotely deliver expertise to help employees and their families nationwide

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Fred Hutch Cancer Center

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Johns Hopkins Medicine

Kimmel Cancer Center

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Northwestern Medicine

Northwestern Medicine

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UT Southwestern Medical Center

Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Cancer is complicated

There are hundreds of cancer types and variants, and optimal treatments can be radically different depending on factors like genetics and stage. AccessHope supports your plan, your employee, and their oncologist with expertise related to their specific case, to make a real, measurable, tangible difference.

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Cancer is costly

In addition to the financial strain it places on employees, cancer is now the top medical expense category for employers.3 AccessHope uses the latest knowledge to help reduce those expenses, while providing support for people with cancer and their families.
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Cancer doesn't treat all people equally

A troubling gap exists between cancer treatment and cancer outcomes based on race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and other characteristics.4 AccessHope can help narrow those gaps with support for your employees, no matter what their zip code or job level is.

Our AccessHope Client Excellence director is genuinely interested in our priorities and offers insights that are strategic in nature. I truly appreciate her ability to operate at different altitudes effectively. She is personable in her approach which further helps build our relationship. She gets it and is one of the best account managers I’ve worked with in my 15 years in Benefits.

The AccessHope team is a true partner: They care about what we care about and always try to help us resolve even some of the most challenging asks. Most importantly, they listen and make us feel valued as a client. We are always reaching higher and for more, and they are along for the ride. Together, we are making a difference.

The proof is in the
(peer-reviewed) paper

Our subspecialists provided evidence-based recommendations that had the potential to influence the treatment plan in approximately 93% of cases.5

Download the study summary

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How are you different than other cancer support services?

AccessHope’s employer benefit gives employer self-funded plans and the treating physicians of employees remote access to renowned cancer expertise through foundational partnerships with NCI–Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, allowing a 100% focus on cancer.

We bring advanced expert knowledge to advise on clinical aspects of a proposed treatment plan and provide evidence-based recommendations including personalized precision medicine opportunities, as well as appropriate clinical trial information and support services, regardless of an employee’s location.

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How is AccessHope different than Centers of Excellence (COE) services?

COE services provide medical care to cancer patients; AccessHope does not. AccessHope’s business model remotely connects (a) employees to cancer support services from expert oncology nurses and support staff via our Cancer Support Team; (b) employees’ community oncologists (via our Expert Advisory Review service) and benefit plans (via our Accountable Precision Oncology service) to the latest expertise from NCI–Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, eliminating the need to travel for leading cancer expertise and leaving their care decisions 100% in the hands of their local treating physician. Our program supports all cancer types and stages along the member’s journey, while they stay close to home with their local support system.

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How are you different than second opinion or expert medical opinion (EMO) services?

Unlike EMO solutions that provide written case reports to members, AccessHope specialists deliver a detailed report on each unique cancer case to the member’s plan or their community oncologist and follow up with an offer of a peer-to-peer clinical consultation call to discuss the evidenced-based recommendations. AccessHope is focused solely on supporting cancer cases with the latest knowledge from NCI centers to help improve quality of life and health outcomes for more people with cancer.

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How does AccessHope work in practice? What exactly do you do?

AccessHope offers remote cancer support services to employers nationwide – Accountable Precision Oncology, Expert Advisory Review and Cancer Support Team.

AccessHope connects employees to expertise from NCI–Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers—to provide unparalleled decision support to cancer patients’ treating physicians and health plans throughout the cancer journey.

Learn more about our suite of services.

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Are community oncologists willing to collaborate with your subspecialists?

Yes. In more than 90% of cases, AccessHope experts offer recommendations which, if adopted by community oncologists, have the potential to influence meaningful and actionable changes to the recommended treatment plan.

In fact, our innovative model of remote expert case reviews was recently validated by a peer-reviewed study in the medical journal JCO Oncology Practice.

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How do you provide expertise to employees with cancer? Do they need to travel?

AccessHope services do not require members to travel, but instead provide remote access to leading-edge insights.

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How difficult would it be for me to implement AccessHope at my organization?

To implement our member-initiated Expert Advisory Review and Cancer Support Team services, AccessHope requires an eligibility file sent weekly from your organization. Our Implementation team will work with you to develop cohesive workflows to streamline this process.

You can send an inquiry now to get started.

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How do you handle member privacy?

AccessHope values members’ privacy. All employee information is transmitted, used and stored securely, according to applicable HIPAA guidelines.

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How is AccessHope addressing cancer health disparities?

While science continues to evolve, disparities in healthcare based on race and geography persist. AccessHope’s remote approach to Expert Advisory Review and Accountable Precision Oncology services addresses disparities by providing access to NCI expertise regardless of the employee’s geographic location. Highly specialized hospitals like NCI centers have been shown in a study to have higher survival rates over 5 years versus community hospitals.1

As an organization, AccessHope also administers diversity, equity, and inclusion training for their physician, clinical and research teams on empathy, authentic communication, unconscious bias and other related topics.

Reference

1 Pfister DG, Rubin DM, Elkin EB, et al. Risk adjusting survival outcomes in hospitals that treat patients with cancer without information on cancer stage. JAMA Oncol. 2015;1(9)1303-1310.

References:

1 National Cancer Institute. Data table 3: Reportable patients/participation in therapeutic studies. National Institute of Health Web site. https://cancercenters.cancer.gov/DT/DT3. Accessed June 4, 2021.

2 American Cancer Society. https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2020/cancer-facts-and-figures-2020.pdf. Accessed September 8, 2022.

3 Business Group on Health. 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey. August 2022. Available at: https://www.businessgrouphealth.org/ resources/2023-large-employers-health-care-strategy-survey-intro

4 American Association for Cancer Research. AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2020. https://cancerprogressreport.aacr.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/AACR_CDPR_2020.pdf. Published 2020. Accessed October 6, 2020.

5 West HJ, Tan YA, Barzi A, Wong D, Parsley R, Sachs T. Novel program offering remote, asynchronous subspecialist input in thoracic oncology: Early experience and insights gained during the COVID-19 pandemic [published online ahead of print December 3, 2021]. JCO Oncology Practice. doi:10.1200/OP.21.00339