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A 10-Point Billing Office Check-Up

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Jon Graham, PhD

Cindy Acker

Because medical oncologists provide evaluation and management services as well as expensive chemotherapy drugs and infusion services to their patients, and usually do so without the help of a large hospital or other organization, it's important to get the billing part right. Although the basic processes are similar to that of other specialties, a great deal more is at stake. Failure to fully and accurately bill for oncology drugs and their administration not only means the oncologist isn't being paid for services rendered, it means staff time and pharmaceutical expenses already paid by the physician . . . [Click for More]