In a panel at Community Oncology Alliance’s (COA) recent virtual conference moderated by COA’s Director of Strategic Practice Initiatives, Bo Gamble, Kashyap Patel, MD, of Carolina Blood & Cancer Care Associates and Lalan Wilfong, MD of Texas Oncology recently...
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2020 Community Oncology Conference
The current COVID-19 pandemic not only forced the 2020 Community Oncology Alliance Conference to a virtual format, the impact of the virus also found its way into a lot of the content. The conference featured topical and important content, including: Top Community...
Planning for the future of oncology care
The Advisory Board recently hosted a webinar titled “How cancer programs are responding to COVID-19 and planning for future market trends.” I shared a summary of part of the webinar that was related to COVID-19 in late March, but it also included some valuable...
Is COVID-19 finally giving telehealth a solid place in cancer care?
Obviously in the current COVID-19 crisis, telehealth is getting a lot of attention. In the past week or so AJMC hosted “How COVID-19 Will Affect telehealth and Alternative Payment Models,” ACCC hosted “Telehealth Billing & Coding,” and COA hosted “Telehealth...
Urgent Care for Cancer Patients: Reducing ED Visits and Hospitalizations
Reducing avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations for cancer patients continues to be a challenge for many providers in the shift to value-based care. In light of today’s health crisis with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become even more important to...
Patient-Reported Outcomes, Remote Monitoring Technology and Value-Based Care
Navigating Cancer’s President and Founder, Gena Cook, spoke at the recent ACCC Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit on the topic of electronic patient-reported outcomes in the context of value-based care. The value of the patient voice in cancer care as...
Digital Health Revolution
As the science around cancer treatment rapidly expands, new digital tools are capturing more data than ever, and most cancer care providers are navigating the transition to value-based care, it was no surprise that this year’s ACCC 46th Annual Meeting & Cancer...
Improving outcomes through patient engagement and PROs
A patient-engaged approach to cancer care has been shown to improve outcomes and the entire patient experience. When patients can report their symptoms easily, those symptoms can be managed in a more timely fashion, reducing visits to emergency departments and...
Join us for a webinar hosted by Advisory Board’s Oncology Roundtable
Strategies to Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Department Utilization Hear about what leading organizations are doing to increase patient access to care, educate patients about appropriate use of health services, and develop targeted programs for frequent users. In this...
What you should know about the proposed Oncology Care First model
On November 1, CMS released an informal Request for Information (RFI) for their proposed Oncology Care First model. This proposed model is designed to be a successor to the Oncology Care Model (OCM), which is ending in 2021. As the comment period closes on December...
2020 Medicare physician fee schedule changes and value-based care
In early November 2019, CMS finalized their 2020 Medicare physician fee schedule rule. CMS has set in motion changes that will affect value-based care over the next several years. The final rule addresses future changes for MIPS, including the introduction of MIPS...
Personalized Medicine and Value-Based Care
How is personalized medicine impacting oncology? A panel at AJMC’s recent Patient-Centered Oncology Care Conference explored this topic. Payer, diagnostic, and advocacy representatives shared their perspectives in this discussion. What is personalized medicine? The...
Future of Oncology Advanced Payment Models
The shift to value What’s next for oncology advanced payment models? That was the topic one panel tackled at AJMC’s recent Patient Centered Oncology Care Conference. The panel represented the provider, payer, and technology perspectives. There was agreement that the...
Patient-Reported Outcomes and Value-Based Care
Scientific research demonstrates that clinicians miss approximately half of patients’ symptoms during cancer treatment. As a result, patients can suffer due to poor symptom control, treatments may be delayed or missed, and preventable emergency room visits and...
Keeping up with the rapidly changing landscape of cancer care
The American Journal of Managed Care recently hosted the Patient-Centered Oncology Care Conference in Philadelphia. The theme of this meeting was “Innovation and Quality: New Direction in Value-Based Care” and it was comprised of a full day of presentations from...
2019 ACCC National Oncology Conference Roundup
The ACCC 36th National Oncology Conference was attended by hundreds of cancer care professionals and thought leaders. Over three days, attendees and presenters shared insights, experiences, and strategies for improving cancer care. Navigating Cancer’s team spoke to...
Transformative Care Models
This session during the recent ACCC National Oncology Conference featured a look at new care models and practice transformations that have been prompted by value-based care and posed several questions for the audience to start the session. About half reported their...
Practice transformation in value-based cancer care
At the 2019 Association for Value-Based Cancer Care Summit this year, we sat in on this great panel called "Practice Transformation Embracing Clinical Decision Support Systems and Care Management Processes and Influence on Value Based Cancer Care." In this post we’ll...
Community oncology perspectives on value-based cancer care
At the 2019 Association for Value-Based Cancer Care Summit this year, we sat in on a great panel called "Community Oncology Perspectives on Value-based Cancer Care" that focused on community oncology practices. At Navigating Cancer we support community oncology...
HHS announces proposed changes to laws to support value-based care
This week the Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) announced proposed rules that would update and clarify regulations for the Stark Law and the anti-kickback statute. HHS has acknowledged the rules as they currently stand were developed in a fee-for-service...
Connect with Navigating Cancer this fall!
We are looking forward to a few upcoming events and would love to connect with you if you will be there too! Let us know! Association for Value-Based Cancer Care Summit Next week some of our team members are heading to the Association for Value-Based Cancer Care...
Improving Care with the Oncology Care Model
A recent blog from the American Journal of Managed Care called “Lessons From the Field: How Practices Are Succeeding Under OCM,” recapped a discussion from NCCN’s policy summit with 2 organizations working to succeed in the Oncology Care Model (OCM). OCM practices are...
Measuring Success in Value-Based Care
Recently Definitive Healthcare hosted a virtual panel for the second session of their panel series focused on measuring success in value-based care. Three panelists from healthcare technology organizations participated and brought their unique perspectives on...
The Emerging Challenges in Cancer Care
During a session at the recent Advisory Board Oncology Roundtable meeting, Stuart Clark, Managing Director, shared three emerging challenges for cancer care providers: value-based care, clinical innovations, and patient experience. Those likely don’t come as a...
AJMC’s Innovation and Quality in Oncology Care
AJMC’s Institute for Value Based Medicine recently hosted an event titled “Innovation and Quality in Oncology Care.” It featured several leaders in the transformation of oncology care who are changing the way cancer care is provided and improving patient experiences...
The COA Oncology Care Model 2.0 webinar
On Friday July 12, 2019, the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) held a webinar to review their proposed plan for the next iteration of the Oncology Care Model (OCM), OCM 2.0. Last month COA announced their full proposal for OCM 2.0, which was submitted to...
What is your practice doing to mitigate the nursing shortage?
We have heard from several of the practices we work with that they are working hard to figure out how to fill the nursing gaps they are facing. One practice told us they are trying to fill 45 open positions. While that may be an extreme example, the shortage is likely...
Artificial Intelligence and Community Oncology
The Community Oncology Conference recently featured a panel discussion of organizations piloting an artificial intelligence (AI) program. The discussion opened with John Frownfelter, the Chief Medical Information Officer at JVION, describing the challenges of cancer...
Catching up with Minnesota Oncology
Minnesota Oncology, a member of The US Oncology Network, has been participating in pay for performance programs over the past five years and are in the process of becoming certified as an oncology medical home. This large, innovative practice wanted to ensure they...
Journal of Oncology Practice Study: Symptom Management Reduces Cancer Care Costs
The Journal of Oncology Practice just published a study that examined triage incidents at two mid-sized community cancer care providers. Both practices use Navigating Cancer’s Patient Relationship Management platform to coordinate patient care, including triage and...
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