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Clinical Co-Management: Hospitals and Oncologists Working Together

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and almost every major health care trade organization or third-party payer have launched a focused quality initiative of some type. Physicians and hospitals prepared to prove their superior quality will have a leading role in establishing relevant benchmarks and metrics for quality performance. Reactive providers will be judged simply by the established standards.

Defining quality care, beyond the quality-award-of-the-week approach, will likely require tighter integration of physician practice and hospital infrastructure. Here, I outline a new legal construct for this integration.

Clinical co-management is an important new model for the integration of . . . [Click for More]

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