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Is your cancer doctor profiteering by choosing the high priced drug?

Payment System For Oncologists Influences Choice Of Treatment, Study Says

The current reimbursement system for chemotherapy medications administered to cancer patients might affect the treatments that oncologists use, according to a study published in the current issue of Health Affairs, the New York Times reports. Medicare and private health insurers reimburse oncologists for the full cost of the chemotherapy medications administered intravenously in their offices, although oncologists can obtain discounts of as much as 86% on the price of the treatments. As a result, oncologists "can profit from the sale of chemotherapy drugs," the Times reports.

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