Oncology Business Management

The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) General Chapter is a good start for improving the protection of healthcare workers exposed to hazardous drugs, but more studies and safety protocols are needed, according to an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) expert panel that evaluated USP and various other guidelines in a report last year.

Oncology practices that are participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s Oncology Care Model are willing to take on two-sided risk with value-based care and shift from a fee-for-service approach.

There is a year and a half remaining in the life of the Oncology Care Model, and although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has leapt forward with a vision for the next-generation model of care Oncology Care First, many stakeholders feel that the Oncology Care Model is more than enough to think about right now.

John L. Marshall, MD, discusses physician burnout in oncology.

Many practices enrolled in the Oncology Care Model were expected to drop out of the value-based model rather than take on 2-sided risk, which would entail upside and downside financial exposure.