The Advanced Alternative Payment Model: Catalyst for Prostate Brachytherapy Adoption?

The impending implementation of the Radiation Oncology Alternative Payment Model (APM) is poised to initiate dramatic disruption in the financial incentives associated with radiation oncology practice, reversing previous incentives for increased fractionation and moving toward incentivizing brevity of care.1 Such incentivization theoretically favors treatment modalities such as hypofractionation and stereotactic body radiation therapy over traditional external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), provided they can yield comparable outcomes to EBRT.
Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Brief Opinion Source Type: research