During his presentation, Cameron M. Cox, President and Chief Executive Officer, MSOC Health, Chapel Hill, NC, discussed the role of patients as customers in healthcare, the innovation of telemedicine, and the importance of online reviews.
In a breakout session, Jennifer Cosey, Principal and Senior Consultant, Eagle Associates, Ann Arbor, MI, discussed issues related to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, including how to assess a potential breach of protected health information (PHI) and determine whether the breach is reportable.
The IsoPSA assay holds promise for improved diagnostic accuracy, said Eric A. Klein, MD, Chairman, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH, at the 2016 American Urological Association annual meeting.
Preliminary results also showed encouraging overall survival data, said Arjun V. Balar, MD, Co-Leader of the Genitourinary Cancers Program, Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, who presented the results.
The study examined the association between testosterone replacement and prostate cancer using the National Prostate Cancer Register and the Prescribed Drug Register, which identified 38,570 men with a prostate cancer between 2009 and 2012, and 192,838 men without prostate cancer in the control group.
Chicago, IL—The ability to use contract pharmacies to deliver drugs for covered entities is one provision of the 340B drug pricing program. This provision allows for the use of an inhouse pharmacy and/or an external retail pharmacy or mail-order pharmacies with the use of virtual inventories, according to Kent Nicaud, Vice President, Physician Administrative Services, Memorial Hos - pital at Gulfport, MS.
Chicago, IL—“Practice acquisitions have many nuts and bolts components beyond regulatory issues, including the type of purchase (asset or stock purchase) and physician compensation structure,” said Alan H. Einhorn, of Foley and Lardner, LLP, Boston, at the Cancer Center Business Summit.
Chicago, IL—Community oncology practices can expect a continuing decrease in operating margins, a slowing of the gains in business and clinical operating efficiencies, and rising labor costs. In addition, chemotherapy drug margins will shrink. As a result, current business models of oncology practices may be difficult to maintain, said Thomas R. Barr, MBA, General Manager at Oncology Metrics, speaking at the Cancer Center Business Summit in Chicago.
Chicago, IL—Comanagement arrangements between hospitals and physicians must be structured properly to avoid violation of federal healthcare statutes and regulations. The basic principles of comanagement agreements were covered during a session on compensation models to align hospital and oncologist interests delivered at the 2011 Cancer Center Business Summit.
Chicago, IL—Financial relationships between hospitals and physicians after acquisition of practices must comply with the federal antikickback statute and physician self-referral laws (Stark Law).
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