A Detailed Diagnosis of Integrated Community Oncology
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JoAnna Younts and Aaron Vandervelde write about cancer care, social and health issues, and integrated community oncology practices in the United States.
Integrated community oncology practices are a cornerstone of cancer care in the United States. Serving a wide range of insured and uninsured people in both rural and urban settings, these practices do more than treat cancer patients. They manage the lives of cancer patients while addressing the myriad of social and health issues that come with fighting cancer. But despite the benefits, these integrated community oncology practices are not well understood and are vulnerable to economic pressures, changes in regulatory frameworks, and hospital competition. Because of these challenges, over the last five years hundreds of community practices have closed, merged, or been acquired by hospitals and hospital systems.
The paper was commissioned by the Community Oncology Alliance and presented at the Community Oncology Conference in Orlando, Florida, in April 2015.
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