Alternative Payment for Radiation Oncology
Open Access
- 19 November 2019
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 322 (19), 1859-1860
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.15888
Abstract
This Viewpoint discusses details of the Radiation Oncology Model, a 90-day episode-based alternative payment model proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) intended to reduce inappropriate overuse of proton beam therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), and other expensive radiation oncology services.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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