Reducing Cancer Costs and Improving Quality Through Collaboration With Payers: A Proposal From the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology — JOP

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Reducing Cancer Costs and Improving Quality Through Collaboration With Payers: A Proposal From the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology

1. Thomas Marsland, MD,
2. Gerald Robbins, MD,
3. Alan Marks, MD,
4. Robert Cassell, MD,
5. Dorothy Green Philips, MD and
6. Kristen King, MPS

+ Author Affiliations

1.
Orange Park Cancer Center, Orange Park; Florida Society of Clinical Oncology, Riverview, FL; Inkthinker Communications, Ruther Glen, VA

Introduction

The cost of health care is rising at an unsustainable rate in the United States. Our nation spends 16% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, a total of more than $2 trillion in health care–related expenditures each year.1 If the current trend continues, health care expenditures will reach 20% of the total GDP by the year 2017.2

In 2002, US per-capita health care spending was 53% higher than that of any other country.3 In 2003 and 2004, US per-capita health care spending was 2.5 times more than the median Organization for Economic Cooperation and …
Reducing Cancer Costs and Improving Quality Through Collaboration With Payers: A Proposal From the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology — JOP