Insurance Committee

Why? Cancer is a complex disease.

It’s critical for people who are diagnosed to get treated early—and be offered high-quality treatment options. Early intervention makes a difference in outcomes. The Delaware Cancer Treatment Program has also become a key factor in the success of getting people screened for cancer. There is a sense of fatality in the attitude of people who are uninsured or underinsured. Why get screened for cancer and learn you have the disease if you have no insurance to pay for treatment? In a very real way, the DCTP has been a tool to encourage people to get screened. Finding cancer early further reduces the cost of treatment. For example, the lifetime treatmentcost for late-stage breast and prostate cancer is consistently $50,000 to $100,000 higher thanfor early stage disease.

ARE SOME OF US MORE AFFECTED BY THIS THAN OTHERS?

The uninsured populations in Delaware have no other resource to pay for cancer treatment.

WHAT CAN BE DONE

Continue to pay for cancer treatment for those who meet the DCTP guidelines.
Extend the time period to cover the cost of cancer treatment to two years.

Click each goal to read about the objectives, tasks and timeframes.

Goal 1:

Reimburse the cost of cancer treatment for every eligible uninsured Delawarean for up to two years after diagnosis.

Goal 2:

Implement mechanisms to obtain cancer-related data from health insurance claims data.