In the oncology overview, you’ll learn, among other essential insights:
- How different kinds of plans will use comparative effectiveness research to make coverage decisions
- How payers are planning to work with oncology-focused accountable care organizations to limit spending
- How payers are adopting – or avoiding – reimbursement innovations from UnitedHealth, specifically targeting high-cost Part B therapies
- How plans are exploiting quality reporting initiatives to contain costs
- The growing influence of NCCN guidelines in blocking off-label prescribing
- How plans are requiring – or avoiding – diagnostic-directed prescribing in their reimbursement decisions
- The report then focuses on payer responses to specific products in four key tumor types. The report directly addresses the following indications and respective marketed and late development stage agents:

