Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Hello, thank you so much for tuning in to the Becker's Oncology Leadership Podcast.

I'm Elizabeth Regerson, an assistant editor here at Becker's, and today I'm talking to Dr. Krishid Guru from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Guru is chair of urology and director of robotic surgery at Roswell Park.

Dr. Guru, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today.

So we may go back and do some more investigator sponsored trial where they said they'd be able to keep us going.

We do have one trial in SDK 11, which is open right now at Roswell Park.

And they're they're funding it.

We're providing drug.

Geno Stone got both hands on that play, on that ball, on that play, but it went through them and right to Igbenosyn for the pick.

Because we're tight on time, that is also our defensive play of the game, which is brought to you by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Spend just one day with us.

Why does that have to be because we're tight on time? I don't know, but you're going to

There is a photograph.

I'm sure many of you remember when it was a promotion Roswell Park did called Heard About Buffalo and there were buffalo statues all over the city of Buffalo and each one was decorated by an artist who had been Oh, I'm losing the word.

They had been contracted, I guess is what's gonna work, to put their special design, their special style on each buffalo.

They were colorful.

Her team has added evening and weekend appointments to help seniors evaluate their options.

McGovern described this year's market as a little bit less disruptive, but some plans have still changed and coverage for Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center continues to shift.

Rising health care costs and lower government reimbursements have squeezed insurers' profits, prompting them to retire some plans, introduce new ones, and revise provider networks.

In Medicare Advantage, the government pays private insurers to operate approved health insurance plans for those 65 and older as an alternative to traditional Medicare.

In 2026, 55% of eligible beneficiaries nationwide enrolled in Medicare Advantage, compared with 78% in Erie County.

According to health policy organization KFF, here's what seniors should know during open enrollment.

Changes for Roswell Park.

Effective January 1st, Roswell Park's main campus and its outpatient centers, College Parkway in Amherst, Park Club Lane in Amherst, and Williams Road in Wheatfield, those will be in network with one Univera Medicare Advantage individual plan, the Senior Choice Secure Plan.

Be careful on Medicare Advantage signups.

I am currently enrolled in a 2026 Medicare Advantage plan that includes Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and its network.

I don't have cancer, but my dermatologist is affiliated with Roswell Park.

No one expects to get cancer, but one in three of us will have a cancer diagnosis in our lifetime.

I received a 20-page annual notice of change document from my current plan provider, detailing benefit changes for vision, dental, pharmacy, and more.

Nowhere in the document does it tell me that for 2027, Roswell Park is not in the network.

If I do nothing by 12-7-2026, I am automatically enrolled in the same plan without Roswell Park coverage.

Do not assume Roswell Park will be in your 2027 Medicare Advantage plan.

There is a proposal to build a data center at the State University of New York at Buffalo that would be a 40 megawatt facility that would be used by planning students to figure out traffic patterns, things like that.

Adding that these centers also can support the AI used for analyzing large data sets to help advance cancer research at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center to investigate new treatments for patients.

One of the things I think we're going to land on as a state is when they do the studies that they figure it out is that we can probably put a cap on the size of data centers and still accomplish the things that people are envisioning while not creating absurd absurd environmental justice concerns with our communities.

not relying on gas and coal and diesel for build-out.