The report, “Site of Service Cost Differences for Medicare Patients Receiving Chemotherapy,” was commissioned by McKesson Specialty Health on behalf of The US Oncology Network. The researchers studied 10 common cancer types that use chemotherapy as a treatment and analyzed costs for Medicare patients from 2006-2009.
They found that the per-patient-per-month allowed costs were $4,361 for those receiving chemotherapy in a physician office and $4,981 for those receiving the treatment in a hospital outpatient setting. Over the course of a year, this difference would grow to approximately $47,500 for physician offices versus roughly $54,000 for hospital outpatient settings.
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