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Duke University Medical Center
Access to cancer care not affected by changes in doctors' reimbursement
July 26th, 2008
The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, which reduced the amount of money doctors are reimbursed for the delivery of chemotherapy treatments, has not harmed patients' access to care in the way critics feared it might, according to a new study, led by investigators from the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). Researchers measured patient access to care by looking at the distance they traveled to be treated and the time that lapsed between diagnosis and initiation of chemotherapy. "The Medicare Modernization Act took issue with the fact that oncologists were often reimbursed too much -- sometimes as much as three times what they had paid -- for the chemotherapy drugs...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-07-26)
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