PCOC 2022: AJMC Talks with Dr. Kashyap Patel About Value-Based Care

This year’s Patient-Centered Oncology Care 2022 saw several talks about defining value in oncology care, according to Dr. Kashyap Patel of Community Oncology Alliance and Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates. Patel spoke about this and other topics covered at the conference with the AJMC  staff in a video interview.

According to , “So we are learning how to define, what is the value to the patient? What is the value to the system? What is value to the doctors? The whole theme of patient-centered oncology care has multiple facets to that, beginning from stakeholders, which is like the pharma industry, the physicians delivering the care, the patients receiving the care, and the payer paying for the care. And it’s nothing that can be learned overnight. It’s almost like doing a phase 1 trial in population health. And we are slowly and steadily learning about, how do you define what is most important part? For example, looking at the alternate payment model, that is one way that stakeholders like the physicians, CMS, as well as manufacturers can come together on one common theme of defining what that kind of part looks like.”

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(Source: AJMC, November 8th, 2022)