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The combination of the BBA site neutrality provisions and the proposed changes in the 340B program is likely to chill or kill some projects that have been on hospital drawing boards — particularly oncologist-alignment transactions to convert physician office-based infusion centers to off-campus, provider-based sites of the hospital, as well as plans to establish new freestanding cancer centers off-campus.
Over the last decade, these have been some of the very few potential “win-win” oncologist alignment strategies left in health care. They have been a “win” for the hospital because the hospital could get paid higher Medicare hospital outpatient payment rates for community-based oncology services provided at these off-campus facilities, rather than be paid at lower Physician Fee Schedule rates.