Economics & Value

Articles about real-world healthcare utilization and costs on Value-Based Cancer Care.
Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) is implementing value-based care and payment models across the country to reward quality and improve outcomes, and these are amounting to billions of dollars in cost-savings and reduced hospitalizations.
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Economists predict that, in less than 3 years, the average household in the United States will use 50% of its income on health insurance and out-of-pocket medical bills. According to Lee N. Newcomer, MD, MHA, Senior Vice President, Oncology, Genetics and Women’s Health, UnitedHealthcare, Minnetonka, MN, creating payment models that can reimburse physicians for cost-effective care is difficult in itself, but demonstrating that the new models are indeed cost-effective involves another set of hurdles.
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In April, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) released a policy statement recommending how to fix the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
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Telephone-based support programs are capable of reducing cancer-related medical costs by 10% to 30%, according to results of the first nurse-led study of the cost impact of telephonic case management in oncology.
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Chicago, IL—The implementation of collaborative, secondary clinical pathway programs can improve outcomes and can lower costs when providers are already participating in another payer-sponsored pathway program. This conclusion comes from a study published online in conjunction with the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
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Chicago, IL—Contrary to common belief, there appears to be little demand on the part of patients with cancer for unsuitable, high-cost, low-value tests or therapies.
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Chicago, IL—Hospital readmissions in patients with cancer reflect the high burden of this disease, which is often refractory and, therefore, readmission is not reasonably preventable.
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Chicago, IL—Oncologists responding to a national electronic survey believe that discussing out-of-pocket (OOP) costs of therapy with patients is important, and that OOP costs and societal cost of therapy will play a larger role in cancer treatment decisions over the next 5 years.
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Chicago, IL—Even after adjusted for improved outcomes, newer anticancer drugs are more expensive than older agents, said Rena Conti, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Economics, University of Chicago, at the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
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Tampa, FL—Intravenous (IV) cancer therapies are more costly, by approximately 10%, when patients receive them in a hospital outpatient setting rather than in a community-based physician office, according to a study presented at the 2014 Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy meeting.
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