Managed Healthcare Executive December 8, 2021
The Oncology Care Model (OCM) was CMS’ main attempt to usher value-based care into oncology. What will come after OCM is unclear as the future of successor, Oncology Care First, is now very much in doubt.
The Oncology Care Model (OCM) was CMS’ main attempt to usher value-based care into oncology. What will come after OCM is unclear as the future of successor, Oncology Care First, is now very much in doubt. Regardless, results of a study of OCM’s first three years may give some value-based care proponents pause.
The 201 practices that volunteered to participate in the model spent $297 less per six-month episode of care than 534 practices in a comparison group, reported Nancy Keating, M.D., M.P.H., a...