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A comparison between the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), and its predecessor, the Oncology Care Mode (OCM).
As the transition from the Enhancing Oncology Model to the Oncology Care Model beckons, cancer programs will need to be proactive as they undergo certain operational changes.
Independent oncology is critical to our healthcare system. Help independent oncology stay off the “endangered species” list by supporting adoption of new digital technologies.
In the absence of a successor to the Oncology Care Model (OCM), the future looks bleak.
Mercy Cancer Care responded to OP-35 was by developing an internal report that predicted the metrics for one of its larger oncology practices.
Drug pricing reform and a thorough analysis of healthcare spending have been the focus of healthcare leadership across the country since early 2018.
As the team of Northwest Medical Specialties discussed its approach to meeting OCM requirements, we realized that the program required rigor and processes like those found in clinical research programs, and an idea surfaced. Employing practices, procedures, and rules commonly used by those who work in a clinical research setting looked like a promising avenue for OCM implementation.
2017 ACCC Innovator Award winner Mitchell Cancer Institute developed a universal oncology nurse navigation acuity tool that measures 11 factors directly impacting the need for and level of navigation services, including staging and diagnosis, co-morbidities, hospitalizations, and family support.
The newest payment model out of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and the first in oncology care, the Oncology Care Model (OCM) is a voluntary, five-year program scheduled to begin in spring 2016.
The February decision by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to build its first specialty care model around oncology is an important indication of the agency’s focus on how to contain costs in cancer care.
In 2016, we saw the Obama Administration finalize regulations around sweeping physician payment reform in Medicare, oncology practices nationwide navigate the first year of the Oncology Care Model (OCM), policymakers try—and fail—to push through drug pricing reform with a national mandatory demonstration program, the 21st Century Cures Act signed into law, and the drug pricing debate hit a fever …
On Friday, October 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule on the MACRA Quality Payment Program (QPP), solidifying transformational changes in the way physicians will be reimbursed for Medicare Part B services.
On June 10, nearly a year after the application deadline, practices signed contracts with CMS, officially signaling whether they were in or out of CMMI’s flagship oncology-specific alternative payment model.