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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: January 2022, Vol 12, No 1

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CAR T-Cell Therapies Demonstrate Efficacy in Second-Line Treatment of LBCL

By William King

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By Patricia Stewart

Reducing Racial Disparities in Cancer Care

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Refining Your Leadership Posture by Setting the Tone for Your Organization

By Kem Tolliver, CMPE, CPC, CMOM

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By Meg Barbor, MPH

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Patients in Financial Tug of War Under PBM Alternate Funding Programs

By Dawn Holcombe, MBA, FACMPE, ACHE

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have developed a new approach to marketing themselves as stewards of the self-funded employers’ healthcare benefit, and it is having direct negative consequences for patients. Under the alternate funding program, new or costly therapies used to treat serious and chronic conditions, including cancer, are being singled out. Read Article

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