White Bagging: Insurer Shift on Drugs Raises Alarm

A big change in drug treatment for cancer is arriving in Georgia. It’s not a new medication. What’s coming is something known as “white bagging,” an insurer tactic involving expensive infusion or injection drugs. And at Crisp Regional Health Services in Cordele, Jennifer Taylor, an oncology nurse practitioner, is concerned about the ultimate effect on patient […]

Community Oncologists Balk at Home Chemo’s Financial Effects

This is the third in a series of articles on delivering cancer treatment at home. If providing cancer therapies at home means handing off patients to a home-infusion company, Tennessee Oncology wants no part of it. The Nashville-based practice, one of the largest community-based practices in the country, is built on a business model that […]