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Can Bundled Payment Affect Reimbursement of Oncology Specialty

The cost of treating cancer is on an all-time high today. The reasons behind such increased spending are varied like aging population, growth in the number of individuals with insurance coverage, earlier diagnoses, and longer survival rates.

 

Additionally advances made in surgeries, radiation therapies, and medications are followed by adjacently rising treatment costs. The newly introduced Affordable Care Act (ACA) project, called the Oncology Care Model proposes to reward oncologists for spending less on Medicare beneficiaries undergoing chemotherapy over a six-month period set by CMS. : www.medicalbillersandcoders.com/articles/revenue-cycle-ma...

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Uploaded on September 13, 2017