{"id":2607,"date":"2016-04-17T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:42:48","slug":"rise-in-oncologists-working-for-hospitals-spurs-higher-chemo-costs-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"Rise In Oncologists Working For Hospitals Spurs Higher Chemo Costs: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>If you have cancer, chances are your outpatient chemotherapy treatment costs are higher if your oncologist works for a health care system than if she has her own practice, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcostinstitute.org\/files\/HCCI-Issue-Brief-Impact-of-Provider-Consolidation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">recent study found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u00a0by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcostinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care Cost Institute<\/a>, a nonprofit research organization, analyzed private health insurance claims and national data about consolidation among doctors and hospitals\u00a0between 2008 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>It found\u00a0significant consolidation between outpatient oncology practices and health care systems in the decade leading up to 2013. The researchers linked that to a rise in spending on drug-based cancer care.\u00a0Each 1-percentage-point increase in the proportion of medical providers who were affiliated with a hospital or health system was associated with a 34 percent increase in annual average spending per person on outpatient cancer drug treatment, they reported. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/rise-in-oncologists-working-for-hospitals-spurs-higher-chemo-costs-study\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=28492119&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_k7ZwgEfF9-DXiliBqEDqwQkx8aF-u_AfiaHD_UgqJeyiwH0j_hiStA89JMWdxY84IJRejHvCDcwQ-MJCiaukFOP7CsA&amp;_hsmi=28492119\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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