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In Cancer Care, Now Is the Era of Defining, Measuring, and Paying for Quality

The era of quality measurements in cancer care has arrived, and close behind it, many believe, is a future of reimbursement linked to quality outcomes—pay for performance. Initiatives that could impact every oncologist in practice are underway. At the national level, under a leadership committed to driving the adoption of paying for performance and paying for quality, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has several quality cancer care projects and demonstrations in progress or planned. The National Quality Forum (NQF) is developing national consensus quality measures for oncology, which could be adopted for use by CMS for its . . . [Click for More]

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