ASCO Panel: Do Medicare Oncology Payment Models Measure Value, or Just Savings?

With Medicare’s latest payment model in oncology set to launch in less than a month, experts met Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) to explore where the last major reimbursement scheme succeeded and where it didn’t—and whether the final report card was truly fair.

The session, “Payment Reform: Lessons Learned from the Oncology Care Model (OCM) and Implications for the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM),” moderated by Gabrielle Betty Rocque, MD, MSPH, FASCO, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham,...