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Improving margins is not a new priority for cancer program leaders. But with increasing financial pressure, it’s more important than ever to double down on tried-and-true tactics—and explore innovative strategies—to reduce costs and maximize revenues.
That’s why we’ve created a one-stop shop to help you identify and make the most of your program’s opportunities to improve your margins. Explore all our top resources below.
As you get started, view our How to Improve Oncology Margins webinar to learn key strategies for containing cost growth, maximizing revenue capture, and identifying profitable growth opportunities.
- Redesigning Cancer Care Delivery for the Era of Accountability: Redesign workflows and engage patients to make the most of limited resources while meeting increased demand for services.
- The Three-Step Cancer Staffing Makeover: Refine your staffing model to make the most of every individual on your team while accommodating growing workloads and more complex treatments.
- Oncology Volumes, Staffing, and Operations Benchmark Generators: Explore data from your peers’ infusion centers, medical oncology clinics, radiation therapy facilities, and support services to identify your top opportunities to increase efficiency and maximize staff.
- Reduce Unwarranted Care Variation in Oncology: Get strategies to reduce non-value-added care, an update on clinical pathway adoption, and guidance on developing pathways that encompass the entire continuum of care.
- Resources to optimize cancer center efficiency: Use these resources to drive efficiency across three key areas: Scheduling, staffing, and patient throughput.
- Capture operational efficiencies: Explore three opportunities to capture operational efficiencies at the service line level.
- Optimize Infusion Center Business and Operations: Use these resources to optimize efficiency and throughput in your infusion center.
- Managing Oncology Drug Costs: Learn strategies to minimize the impact of rising drug costs on your organization.
- Oncology Hospital Operations, Quality, and Finance Benchmark Generator: Use this tool to get instant access to Medicare cost benchmarks across a variety of care settings and claim types.
- How to Keep Your Cancer Patients Out of the ED: Learn how to identify and address the top reasons for avoidable ED and hospital utilization, one of the biggest drivers of high cancer costs.
- Chemotherapy patient avoidable utilization assessment: Use this tool to understand your patients’ ED visit and inpatient admission patterns and identify your top opportunities to reduce avoidable utilization.
- Improving End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients: Use these four strategies to drive down avoidable costs and improve quality at the end of life for your patients.
- Prior Authorization for Physician-Administered Drugs: Explore these best practices for staffing, process redesign, improving information flow, and working with payers to reduce prior authorization requirements.
- Cancer Patient Financial Navigation: Help patients understand and manage their financial responsibilities, in turn improving your program's revenue capture and bottom line.
- Help Patients Understand Their Financial Responsibility: Explore additional ways organizations have made sure patients understand what they owe, and use this customizable form to get started.
- Tap into All Available Assistance: See how other cancer programs are going above and beyond to make sure they connect patients to all available financial assistance.
- 5 Things You Need to Know About Specialty Pharmacy Strategy: Develop a strategy to manage oncology specialty drugs, maximize your organization’s drug revenues, and improve patient support.
- Resources to optimize infusion center business and operations: Use this toolkit determine the best infusion billing strategy, optimize your staffing model, ensure timely patient throughput, and create a financially sustainable infusion center.
- The Infusion Center Billing Strategy Playbook: Reevaluate your billing strategy based on local payer priorities and market dynamics.
- Don't know how to lower costs and raise quality? Your pharmacists do.: Learn how extending the pharmacist role can help augment capacity and drive revenue.
- Your secret weapon for unlocking outpatient drug reimbursements? Pharmacists.: Discover how pharmacists’ skills and expertise are crucial for full reimbursement capture.
- Oncology Hospital Operations, Quality, and Finance Benchmark Generator: Access Medicare benchmarks for cancer-specific financial data to see how you compare to your peers.
- Infusion Center Volumes, Staffing, and Operations Benchmark Generator: Explore the results from our national benchmarking surveys, including benchmarks on contribution margin, operating margin, change in net revenue, and other financial metrics.
- Why your current infusion strategy falls short (and what you need to know to rethink it): See how you can make changes to your infusion center strategy to maintain revenue in the face of payer requirements.
- Resources to optimize cancer center efficiency: Use these resources to drive efficiency across three key areas: Scheduling, staffing, and patient throughput.
- Resources to grow your cancer program: Find our top resources to craft an effective growth strategy—from assessing your market to implementing best practice growth strategies.
- The Tumor Site Strategy Toolkit: Make the most of your tumor site programs using these tools, program development guides, and benchmarking tools.
- Oncology Hospital Operations, Quality, and Finance Benchmark Generator: Use this tool to get instant access to Medicare profit benchmarks across a variety of care settings and claim types.
- Oncology referral strategy toolkit: Learn five opportunities to create or update your referral strategy.
- Online Cancer Program Marketing: Get messages and tactics for attracting new patients and improving your online presence.
- Cancer Patient Experience Survey Resources: Explore the top resources from our Cancer Patient Experience Survey to understand what matters most to your cancer patients.
- Strategic Employer Partnerships for Cancer Care: Learn four strategies to establish meaningful partnerships with employers.
- Clinical Innovations in Oncology: Learn how to balance your operational and financial realities with the need to provide the latest and greatest in cancer treatment to your patients.
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