October 2017

As many hard-pressed physician practices have been doing in the present healthcare environment, our oncology practice also had to take a hard look at our operational design, strategy for the future, and sustainability.

In community oncology, the complexity and cost of therapy and therapy administration have caused the cost of delivering a service to rise disproportionately relative to actual payment.

As the Oncology Care Model practices work to reduce Medicare’s overall spending on those patients and to earn shared savings payments, the data are providing them with an unprecedented full picture of the extent and cost of care.

The Community Oncology Alliance has embarked on a journey to educate and inform the men and women undertaking hematology/oncology fellowships across the country about the employment choices awaiting them.

North Star Lodge of Yakima, Washington, found that making the Oncology Care Model work involved solving a long series of problems.

As increasingly pricey therapies come on the market, payers have grown more cautious about issuing payment approvals.

Today’s healthcare landscape is rapidly evolving, with many trends emerging and policy changes under consideration that have far-reaching implications for cancer care.

It can be tough running a community-based oncology practice. Hospitals are expanding their oncology operations, there is a shortage of oncologists—particularly business-minded oncologists—and public and private payers have made it more difficult to get paid.

End-of-life palliative care consultations can significantly reduce healthcare utilization, according to a broad-based population study published in the Journal of Oncology Practice.

Investigators at Cota, a New York medical data analytics company, are taking further strides toward putting their growing knowledge of variance in care to work in the clinical setting.