Aetna, Moffitt Cancer Center Form Oncology Medical Home
April 16 2015 - 11:21AM
Business Wire
--The Patient-Focused Model Supports
High-Value Care --
Moffitt Cancer Center and Aetna (NYSE: AET) announced today a
collaboration to create an oncology medical home that is designed
to improve the care experience for cancer patients. Within an
oncology medical home model, teams of cancer specialists
collectively provide for a patient’s health care when he or she has
a cancer diagnosis. The model will give Moffitt the responsibility
to arrange for appropriate care that is continuous and
proactive.
“Through this relationship Moffitt will be able to transform
quality of care for our patients,” explained Jack Kolosky,
executive vice president, chief operating officer of Moffitt. “The
oncology medical home will enable Moffitt to provide personalized
care to patients that is more effective and efficient.”
The model is part of a strategic direction to transition from
fee-for-service medicine to value-based payment. Value-based
arrangements are emerging as a solution to address rising health
care costs, clinical inefficiency and duplication of services, and
to make it easier for people to get the care they need. In
value-based models, doctors and hospitals are paid for helping keep
people healthy and for improving the health of those who have
chronic conditions in an evidence-based, cost-effective way.
“The collaboration between Aetna and Moffitt Cancer Center will
help define the value of care and serve as a model for value-based
arrangements with similar institutions,” said Michael Kolodziej,
M.D., Aetna’s national medical director for Oncology Solutions.
The operating principles of the Moffitt and Aetna oncology
medical home include:
- An orientation to the whole
person. A Moffitt personal physician will be responsible for
providing or arranging for all of a patient’s health care needs
with other qualified professionals. This includes care for all
stages of treatment: acute care, chronic care, preventive services
and end-of-life care.
- Evidence-based, personalized medical
care. The Moffitt team will focus on designing treatment
regimens based on current medical evidence for each unique disease
presentation, patient-specific factors and patient choice by
utilizing Moffitt’s Clinical Pathways, which were designed by teams
of surgeons, medical oncologists, hematologists and radiation
oncologists to improve quality and outcomes.
- Coordinated and integrated care.
Across all elements of the complex health system, care will be
facilitated to enable Aetna members to get the appropriate care
when and where it is needed and wanted, in a culturally and
linguistically appropriate manner.
- Quality and safety. Quality and
safety will be a focus of care, including use of evidence-based
medicine (such as those provided in Moffitt’s Clinical Pathways),
clinical decision support tools and accountability for continuous
quality improvement.
- Enhanced access to care. Care
will be available through systems such as open scheduling, expanded
hours and new options for communication between Aetna members,
their personal physicians and hospital staff.
The oncology medical home arrangement began in February.
About Moffitt Cancer Center
Located in Tampa, Moffitt is one of only 41 National Cancer
Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, a
distinction that recognizes Moffitt’s excellence in research,
its contributions to clinical trials, prevention and cancer
control. Moffitt is the top-ranked cancer hospital in the Southeast
and has been listed in U.S. News & World Report as one of the
“Best Hospitals” for cancer care since 1999. With more than 4,500
employees, Moffitt has an economic impact in the state of nearly
$1.6 billion. For more information, visit MOFFITT.org, and follow
the Moffitt momentum on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
About Aetna
Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care
benefits companies, serving an estimated 46 million people with
information and resources to help them make better informed
decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of
traditional, voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance
products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental,
behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical
management capabilities, Medicaid health care management services,
workers' compensation administrative services and health
information technology products and services. Aetna's customers
include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time
and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers,
governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and
expatriates. For more information, see www.aetna.com and learn
about how Aetna is helping to build a healthier world.
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Moffitt Media Contact:Patty Kim,
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