Value-based care within insurance design utilizes evidence-based medicine as a means of
defining high-value versus low-value diagnostics and treatments. The goals of value-based …

PURPOSE: To provide Standards on the basis of evidence and expert consensus for a pilot
of the Oncology Medical Home (OMH) certification program. The OMH model is a system of …

In surgery, quality assessment encourages improved care delivery, better outcomes, and
helps determine surgical efficacy. Quality is important from a patient, provider, payer, and …

Objective: To measure commercial price variation for cancer surgery within and across
hospitals. Background: Surgical care for solid-organ tumors is costly, and negotiated …

A growing sense of the need to define good-quality cancer care has emerged in the past
decade of the 20th century. The goals were to assess, improve, and reward quality …

Improvements in cancer care delivery have the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality
from cancer, however, challenges to delivery of recommended care limit progress. These …

Value-based payment models (VBPMs) have become increasingly prevalent in oncology.
The most robust example is the Oncology Care Model (OCM), a cancerspecific, 5-year …

Purpose Cancer patients have many medical and psychosocial needs, which may increase
during the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to (1) risk-stratify hematology/oncology patients …

OBJECTIVES: Recent advances have created options for first-line (1L) treatment of
advanced/metastatic non--small cell lung cancer (aNSCLC). The study objectives were to …

PURPOSE The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is currently the only federally
mandated value-based payment model for oncologists. The weight of cost measures in …