Value-based care has emerged as an important initiative in healthcare. Our panel reviewed some of the challenges in implementing value-based care in oncology and explored areas for collaboration.
Key highlights
- Introduction of high-cost therapies in oncology and other therapeutic categories will continue to stretch the healthcare system to its limits
- Value-based care prioritizes the quality of care over the quantity of care
- Support services in oncology (eg, nurse navigators, clinical pharmacists, social workers) can add quality and value to the care that cancer patients receive as a whole
- Alternate payment models that consider the total cost of care are needed to drive better patient outcomes and move toward a value-based care model in oncology