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Addressing Health Equity and Social Needs
Addressing cancer patients' lack of housing or food insecurity affects care outcomes, but how can the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation build this into a reward structure?
EP: 1.No Successor to OCM Would Disappoint
EP: 2.CMMI Open to Feedback, but EOM Out of the Blue
EP: 3.Some Practices That Did Not Do OCM Are Applying
EP: 4.Seven Tumor Types: Pros and Cons
EP: 5.A Model That Is Built to “Win”
EP: 6.Addressing Health Equity and Social Needs
EP: 7.Is Five Years Long Enough?
EP: 8.Changes to MEOS and Barriers to Entry
EP: 9.Small Practices and Dual Risk: Considerations and Approaches
EP: 10.Does Pooling Make Sense?
EP: 11.What Would You Change About the EOM?
The Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM) asks participating practices to track data on social determinants of health, and as moderator Stuart Staggs, MSIE, of The US Oncology Network stated, "As you know more things you want to do more things." Kashyap Patel, MD, described an initiative he launched at his practice, Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates. Building partnerships in the community is not easy and takes time while the need to care for patients is ongoing. Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, chief medical officer, Tennessee Oncology, said the process will formalize existing structures.
Missed Opportunities for Salpingectomy Highlight Gaps in Ovarian Cancer Prevention
August 27th 2025Many patients later diagnosed with high-grade serous cancer had prior surgical or genetic testing opportunities that could have reduced their ovarian cancer risk, underscoring the need to expand opportunistic salpingectomy and preventive strategies.
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