title: A shifting focus on cancer.
abstract: This installment of our quarterly series on clinical management issues focuses on trends in oncology services. Even with the threat of overbuilding in certain markets, proposed cuts to Medicare reimbursements and competition from niche facilities, hospitals are placing renewed emphasis--and spending--on cancer.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Serb
mesh_terms: D002173:Cancer Care Facilities / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000191:economics / Q000532:radiotherapy; D016522:Oncology Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D011357:Product Line Management; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011907:Rate Setting and Review; D014481:United States