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No Successor to OCM Would Disappoint
Experts from US Oncology, Tennessee Oncology, AON, and COA dig into the details of implementing the Enhancing Oncology Model, set to take effect July 1, 2023.
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?
Moderator Stuart Staggs, MSIE, senior director, strategic programs, The US Oncology Network, starts the discussion of the Enhancing Oncology Model by asking panelists to reflect on the need for CMS to provide a successor to the Oncology Care Model (OCM). Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, chief medical officer, Tennessee Oncology; Kashyap Patel, MD, CEO, Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates and president, Community Oncology Alliance; and Fred Divers, MD, chief medical officer, American Oncology Network and medical oncologist, Genesis Cancer and Blood Institute of Arkansas, agree that practices that had invested in practice transformation under the OCM would have been extremely disappointed if there had been no successor to the OCM.
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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