Wide variation in payments for medicare beneficiary oncology services suggests room for practice-level improvement

Health Affairs

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 601-608

  Clough, Jeffrey D ^a   Patel, Kavita ^b   Riley, Gerald F ^c   Rajkumar, Rahul ^d   Conway, Patrick H ^e   Bach, Peter B ^f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings   (United States)

^c Actuarial Research Corporation   (United States)

^d Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

^f MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; PEGFILGRASTIM; RITUXIMAB;

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; FEE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; ONCOLOGY; REIMBURSEMENT; UNITED STATES;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEE SCHEDULES; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MEDICARE; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929621413     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0964     Document Type: Article

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