Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Goozner, Merrill

Titel

Strategies to reduce cancer-care costs

Ist Teil von

• JNCI : Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2013-02, Vol.105 (4), p.247-248

Ort / Verlag

United States: Oxford Publishing Limited (England)

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Payment for cancer care will change radically over the next decade as the nation struggles to hold down health care costs, experts told an early October Institute of Medicine forum, Delivering Affordable Cancer Care in the 21st Century. Traditional fee-for-service medicine, in which oncology reimbursement relies disproportionately on profits from expensive chemotherapy drugs, will give way to a variety of alternative payment mechanisms that Medicare and insurance companies are now testing. These systems include bundled payments for episodes of care, value-based insurance design, and shared savings models linked with pay-for-performance programs that reward physicians who adhere to standardized treatment protocols.