OCM Successor Puts Focus on Equity in Cancer Care—With Fewer Dollars for Services

AJMC August 15, 2022
Mary Caffrey

Days before it expired, CMS announced a replacement for the Oncology Care Model (OCM) that officials say will put more focus on health equity—but with less money to offer services that physicians say have improved patients’ lives.

The OCM, launched in 2016, ended on June 30 amid calls for an extension and praise from oncologists who say they will never return to the old way of delivering care. Despite the OCM’s flaws, practice leaders say they’ve learned a lot, which they see reflected in the successor, the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), announced on June 27.^1,2

However, the EOM will not start until July 2023, creating a yearlong gap for practices that took part in the OCM and relied on it...

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