Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, PhD

Pressure on regulators to reduce healthcare costs could be a response to the estimated $1 trillion in US expenditures from poor care coordination, administrative burdens, and fraud, said Jeff Mortier, partner at Farragut Partners, during the Community Oncology Alliance Payer Exchange Summit.

Discussing the challenges that clinical practices will face as they implement the Medicare Oncology Care Model (OCM), the strategies that have worked for practices using similar payment models, and how the CMMI hope to work with oncologists for the success of the OCM.

Patients with non-small cell lung cancer whose disease&nbsp;has metastasized to the brain can do without whole-brain&nbsp;radiotherapy, according to a study published in&nbsp;<em>Lancet.</em>