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Enhancing Oncology's Business Case: How the Hospital Can Help

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Oncologists are facing unprecedented business challenges. Perhaps even more dramatically than other specialties, oncology is struggling to meet the burgeoning mandates for demonstrated quality and performance, fraud and abuse avoidance, risk management, and efficiency as their fundamental business model predicated on revenues from pharmaceuticals reaches a crossroads. Whereas there are many things that oncologists could do to enhance their practice efficiencies, and thereby improve their financial margins,¹ the hospitals to which oncologists primarily relate can also be a source of help.

There is considerable mythology, which has impeded the development of creative techniques by which hospitals and their medical staff . . . [Click for More]

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