WCOE: Brookings Event Examines Cost and Value, the ACA, and Accounting Practices in Medical Billing
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. In “Adult Conversation on High-Priced Drugs? Don’t Hold Your Breath (But Hang in There)…," Rob Cunningham provided a summary of a recent event held by the Brookings Institution that ...
WCOE: ACA Open Enrollment, Drug Prices and Innovation, Breast Cancer Awareness and More
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. This week, several articles caught our eye: Amy Berman shared her own experience “Choosing Wisely” when she opted for a single dose of radiation therapy to alleviate ...
WCOE: Matthew Herper Asks the Question “What Is This Worth to You?”
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. “To some, this might seem like highway robbery on (Alexion CEO) Bell’s part. But in past conversations, he’s given me a very different perspective. The high costs ...
WCOE: Elevating the Discussion on Living Well Until the End of Life
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. What caught our eye this week was extensive coverage of Dr. Atul Gawande’s new book, Being Mortal: Medicine and what Matters in the End. In it, he ...
WCOE: The Open Payments Data Release
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Most of the critiques of open payment fall into a few categories: • The quality and accuracy of the data • The lack of context around the ...
WCOE: Over-Diagnosis, Over-Treatment, and a Broader View of Health
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. “We’re not finding enough of the really lethal cancers, and we’re finding too many of the slow-moving ones that probably don’t need to be found.” In a ...
WCOE: “Why I Hope to Die at 75” and a New IOM Report on Quality and End of Life Preferences
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Are we finally ready to address the repeated recommendations in these series of reports and to make it possible for our healthcare system, providers of care, and ...
WCOE: Dr. Susan Love Discusses the Pros and Cons of BRCA Screening
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. There are as many questions as there are differences of opinion about what constitutes the best evidence when it comes to appropriate cancer screening and then appropriate ...
WCOE: Paying Doctors to Talk About End-of-Life Care
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. “Five years after it exploded into a political conflagration over ‘death panels,’ the issue of paying doctors to talk to patients about end-of-life care is making a ...
WCOE: Patient Empowerment in Discussing End-of-Life Care
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. In Elana Gordon’s segment with NPR titled, “Hello, May I Help You Plan Your Final Months?” she reports on the work of Vital Decisions, a company that provides ...
