October 2017 | Oncology Business News®

October 31, 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.

October 29, 2017

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.

October 27, 2017

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.

October 23, 2017

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.

October 23, 2017

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

October 13, 2017

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

October 13, 2017

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

October 02, 2017

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.

August 29, 2017

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.

August 25, 2017

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.