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Contact:
Ellen Shafer
701-219-0333

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (October 14, 2008) – Catherine Miyamoto, director of operations for Cancer Center of North Dakota (CCND), attended the Association of Community Cancer Centers’ (ACCC) 25th Annual Oncology Economics Conference in San Francisco, September 17 – 20.
           The four-day conference welcomed more than 600 ACCC members to discuss the solutions, strategies, and innovations needed to meet rising demand, rising costs, and reduced reimbursements. The meeting featured in-depth coverage of the many regulatory and reimbursement changes affecting oncology and explored how hospitals and oncology practices are dealing with evolving restraints on the delivery of quality care. Miyamoto’s session track focused on Effective Reimbursement Management, where she found the starting points for building a patient financial assistance program.
About the Association of Community Cancer Centers
           The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is the leading national multidisciplinary organization that defines quality care for patients with cancer and influences change to continually improve cancer care. Since its inception in 1974, ACCC has focused on enhancing, promoting and protecting the entire continuum of quality cancer care for patients and communities.
About Cancer Center of North Dakota
           Cancer Center of North Dakota is the state’s only free-standing, independent cancer center. It is home to the region’s only board certified radiation oncologist who is a doctor of medicine, Dr. William Noyes, and Grand Forks’ first female board certified medical oncologist, Dr. Ngozi Okoro. CCND offers technology, therapies and services that cannot be found anywhere else in the Grand Forks region, northwest Minnesota or all of North Dakota including On-Board Imaging.