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NCCN Offers On-Line Tool for 2006 CMS Oncology Demonstration Program

JENKINTOWN, Pa., January 27, 2006 — The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has released specially coded versions of 13 NCCN Guidelines to support the 2006 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Oncology Demonstration Program. These NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in OncologyTM have been annotated with G-Codes from CMS and are available on www.nccn.org.

The 2006 CMS Oncology Demonstration Program encourages high-quality care in all facets of the management of patients with cancer. Physicians are being asked to report to CMS whether their management of patients adheres to guidelines developed by either the NCCN or the American Society of Clinical Oncology. NCCN Guidelines annotated with G-Codes provide oncologists and hematologists a tool to rapidly navigate the relevant guidelines and accurately determine whether the cancer treatment they provide is adherent to the guidelines.

NCCN Guidelines are the recognized standard for clinical policy in the oncology community. They are developed and updated continually and are based upon evaluation of scientific data integrated with expert judgment.

Throughout 2006, the NCCN will offer information programs to advise directly on the logistics, implementation and longer-term implications of the CMS Demonstration Program. Implementation of the CMS Demonstration Program will be a major focus of the NCCN 11th Annual Conference to be held March 8-12, 2006 and of NCCN Regional Symposia to be held throughout 2006.