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Do No Financial Harm: How to Improve Cost Transparency in Cancer Care

We’ve heard the figures before: the price of cancer drugs has risen by orders of magnitude per month over the past decades. In addition to cancer treatment becoming more expensive, insurance design and drug formularies have changed, resulting in a greater financial burden for patients.

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One Oncologist’s Firsthand Experience with Serious Illness: What Your Patients Want

There’s really only one way to identify how patients are coping with serious illness: by asking them, according to Thomas J. Smith, MD, FACP, Director of Palliative Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD.

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Harnessing the Power of Data Collection and Coordination in Oncology Practice

Business intelligence is the process of collecting data from disparate systems—internal and external—and turning it into information that is meaningful and actionable toward achieving strategic goals.

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What Does an Ideal Navigation Program Look Like?

Katherine Sharpe, SVP ACS explains how to evaluate what makes an ideal navigation program.

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Highlights From the Latest Issue: July 2021, Vol 11, No 7

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By Charlie Dawson

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The Challenges Continue for PBMs: Are They Headed for a Perfect Storm?

By Dawn Holcombe, MBA, FACMPE, ACHE

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have become a fixture in the drug supply chain. They serve as administrators of prescription drug benefits for those who pay for care, including commercial health plans, self-insured employer plans, Medicare Part D plans, and state government employee plans. According to the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), PBMs administer prescription drug plans for more than 266 million Americans. Read Article

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