NCCN Policy Summit: Defining, Measuring, and Applying Quality in an Evolving Health Policy Landscape and the Implications for Cancer Care

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Lindsey A.M. Bandini National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania;

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Leigh Gallo National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania;

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Terrell Johnson National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania;

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Kara Martin National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania;

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Alyssa A. Schatz National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania;

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Kerin Adelson Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut;

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Bryan A. Loy Humana, Louisville, Kentucky;

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Ronald S. Walters The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dallas, Texas; and

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Quality measurement is a critical component of advancing a health system that pays for performance over volume. Although there has been significant attention paid to quality measurement within health systems in recent years, significant challenges to meaningful measurement of quality care outcomes remain. Defining cost can be challenging, but is arguably not as elusive as quality, which lacks standard measurement methods and units. To identify industry standards and recommendations for the future, NCCN recently hosted the NCCN Oncology Policy Summit: Defining, Measuring, and Applying Quality in an Evolving Health Policy Landscape and the Implications for Cancer Care. Key stakeholders including physicians, payers, policymakers, patient advocates, and technology partners reviewed current quality measurement programs to identify success and challenges, including the Oncology Care Model. Speakers and panelists identified gaps in quality measurement and provided insights and suggestions for further advancing quality measurement in oncology. This article provides insights and recommendations; however, the goal of this program was to highlight key issues and not to obtain consensus.

Submitted March 11, 2020; accepted for publication May 28 2020.

Disclosures: Dr. Adelson has disclosed that she has received grant/research support from Genentech. Dr. Loy has disclosed that he is an employee of Humana. Ms. Bandini, Ms. Gallo, Mr. Johnson, Ms. Martin, Ms. Schatz, and Dr. Carlson are employees of NCCN. The remaining authors have disclosed that they have no financial interests, arrangements, affiliations, or commercial interests with the manufacturers of any products discussed in this article or their competitors

Correspondence: Lindsey A.M. Bandini, MPH, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 3025 Chemical Road, Suite 100, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462. Email: bandini@nccn.org
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