Managed Care Cast

Although genomic testing is recognized in national oncology guidelines as key to determining the right therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer (MCC), overall biomarker testing rates remain poor. On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with one of the authors of a recent study about this issue published in JCO Precision Oncology. Stuart Goldberg, MD, a hematologist oncologist at the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, discusses real-world testing of biomarkers in MCC by mining electronic health records. Goldberg is also the hospital’s first chief of the Division of Outcomes and Value Research, and the episode also discusses the relationship between value-based medicine and precision medicine and the promise of delivering improved outcomes at lower costs by avoiding ineffective therapies through the use of specialized testing and diagnostics.