{"id":680,"date":"2013-08-30T07:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T11:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2015-02-10T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T20:59:10","slug":"is-concern-about-profit-margins-denying-cancer-patients-best-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/30\/is-concern-about-profit-margins-denying-cancer-patients-best-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Profit Margins Dictating Cancer Treatment Recommendations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe&#8217;re asking surgeons to buy a device that takes away profit margins and their next case but makes life and recovery easier for the patient. Why, in Israel and Europe, where no one is rewarded monetarily for second surgeries, do they embrace this tool?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-687\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-687\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MP9003853431-200x280.jpg\" alt=\"Man holding cash.\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MP9003853431-200x280.jpg 200w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MP9003853431-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MP9003853431.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are profit margins dictating cancer treatment?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That&#8217;s the telling question Newport Beach, California cancer surgeon Dr. Alice Police asked the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/cancer-523236-breast-surgery.html\">Orange County Register<\/a><\/i> while discussing the reluctance of U.S. hospitals and cancer surgeons to use a game-changing new <a href=\"http:\/\/issels.com\/Cases.aspx#Breast\">breast cancer<\/a> surgery tool that dramatically reduces the need for repeat surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>Using the new MarginProbe System, surgeons can test removed tissue in the operating room to determine whether all cancer cells have been excised and, if necessary, remove additional tissue during a single surgery, negating the need for subsequent surgeries. While the cost of using the device is high, FDA approval means costs are covered by Medicare and most major health insurers. So why have only 4 U.S. hospitals purchased the MarginProbe System in the 8 months since FDA approval?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael J. Stamos of the University of California-Irvine Medical Center said UCI purchased the device \u201cto improve patient care.\u201d While admitting that the hospital loses money when repeat surgeries are not needed, he told the <i>Register<\/i>, \u201cYou have to look beyond the current economics and more at favorable outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concern that profit margins may be affecting hospitals\u2019 and surgeons\u2019 reluctance to adopt this new cancer treatment tool calls into question broader treatment recommendations made by practitioners of traditional Western medicine. Do profit margins play a role in their failure to offer cancer patients effective <a href=\"http:\/\/issels.com\/#sthash.UmjjvJp0.dpbs\">alternative cancer treatments<\/a> from which they will not profit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re asking surgeons to buy a device that takes away profit margins and their next case but makes life and recovery easier for the patient. Why, in Israel and Europe, where no one is rewarded monetarily for second surgeries, do they embrace this tool?\u201d That&#8217;s the telling question Newport Beach, California cancer surgeon Dr. Alice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/30\/is-concern-about-profit-margins-denying-cancer-patients-best-treatment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are Profit Margins Dictating Cancer Treatment Recommendations?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[224,347],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","tag-cancer-treatment","tag-profit"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}