Physician's Office and Hospital Outpatient Setting in Oncology: It's About Prices, Not Use.

The author discusses the differences between the prices for cancer in a physician's office and he hospital outpatient setting in the U.S. Topics include the efforts to consolidate physician's offices into hospitals, the impact of the 340B drug discount program on the prices of drugs charged by hospitals, and the Part B pilot proposal of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).