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Differentiating Between Best Practice and Billing Driven Practice: SBRT in Two Healthcare Systems
February 3, 2021 from 11:00am EDT to 11:30am EDT
This presentation will look into how financial and reimbursement systems can dictate radiation oncology practices. Specifically comparing and contrasting the US insurance based model to the publicly funded Canadian system, one-time fee per oncology referral with a preview into the soon to be introduced Ontario new reimbursement system, QBP – Quality Based Protocols. The distribution of work between the various professional groups as well as the tasks that are required for a patient’s journey through radiation treatments will be discussed.
Speakers / Panelists
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Introduction: Where We Are, Where We Have Been, and Where We Are Going
February 1, 2021 from 11:15am EDT to 12:45pm EDT -
Discussion (panel)
February 1, 2021 from 12:45pm EDT to 1:30pm EDT -
Differentiating Between Best Practice and Billing Driven Practice: SBRT in Two Healthcare Systems
February 3, 2021 from 11:00am EDT to 11:30am EDT
Annie Hsu, PhD
Medical Physicist
Annie Hsu, PhD
Annie Hsu, PhD
Medical Physicist
Dr Annie Hsu has been the Associate Head of Medical Physics at the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre since 2019. Prior to this she was a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University where she was the Chief of Clinical Physics Radiation Physics Division for five years. She currently serves on the AAPM Clinical Practice Committee, the Spring Clinical Meeting Subcommittee, the Summer School Subcommittee and the Medical Physics Practice Guideline 4.b (TG344). The COMP Winter School Committee is the first COMP activity she has had the pleasure to be involved with. Areas of interest include SBRT and Radiosurgery as well as efficiency in radiation therapy workflows while maintaining safe practices.