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Oncology Practice Leaders Refocusing Efforts to Improve Long Term Viability
Oncology practices are experiencing acute challenges in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment. Costs for treating patients are increasing, regulatory changes are affecting the way practices operate, and there are significant changes in reimbursement — compounded by a 2% reduction in fees as a result of the recent sequestration. In addition, payers are moving away from the traditional fee-for-service payment model towards value-based models that recognize quality and patient outcomes.
These shifts require practice leadership to make preserving or increasing revenue and cash flow a top priority. After all, practices cannot provide care if they cannot afford to stay in business. So, how should practice leaders re-tool and re-focus their efforts to keep their practices financially viable and thriving in these challenging times?
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Source: OBROncology.com
Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With A. Mark Fendrick, MD, and Michael E. Chernew, PhD
December 2nd 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The December issue features a conversation with AJMC Co–Editors in Chief A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and Michael E. Chernew, PhD, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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