Can Community Oncology Practices Survive the Medicare Wars?
Can Community Oncology Practices Survive the Medicare Wars?
Patrick Cobb, MD; Ted Okon
20110606
2011 Jul 6
OncologySTAT Editorial Team
Can Community Oncology Practices Survive the Medicare Wars?
OncologySTAT Editorial Team. 2011 Jul 6, Patrick Cobb, MD; Ted Okon
Abstract
Dr. Patrick Cobb is immediate past President of the Community Oncology Alliance and Chairman of the COA Policy Committee and Ted Okon is Executive Director, Community Oncology Alliance. In case you don’t know it, a huge political war is being waged, with Medicare smack in the middle of the battleground. If you are weary of the war analogies, we are sorry; but, this is nothing short of a real political war. On one side are the Republicans, who in the House of Representatives passed a 2012-and-beyond...