Cancer Prevention and Treatment Demonstration for Ethnic and Racial Minorities

Section 122(b)(3) of BIPA provides that if the initial Report to Congress on the demonstration projects contains an evaluation that the demonstration projects 1) reduce Medicare expenditures under title XVIII of the Social Security Act or 2) do not increase Medicare expenditures, reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in the quality of health care services provided to target individuals, and increase beneficiary and provider satisfaction, then the Secretary shall continue the existing demonstration projects and may expand the number of demonstration projects. Given that the demonstration sites initially took so long to enroll participants, the limited time for the interventions being tested to take effect, and insufficient participant Medicare claims data to permit measurement of the demonstration's impact, the first two Reports to Congress have been unable to definitively address either of the above two issues yet. The third and final Report to Congress is due September 2012. The 4-year demonstration, which started September 2006, is scheduled to end March 2011.