Implementing a Cardio-oncology Center of Excellence: Nuts and Bolts, Including Coding and Billing

Abstract

Cardio-oncology is rapidly expanding as part of cancer therapy in both the acute phase and later stages after treatment. The shifting paradigm of cancer becoming a chronic disease requires long-term follow-up for ongoing cardiac toxicity. As more cancer patients enter the survivorship phase, there needs to be identification of those at risk and strategies for how best to monitor long-term cancer therapy-related cardiac disease. This article serves as a template decide if a cardio-oncology program should be started and expanded as a center of excellence for the discipline as well as to help in implementing and financially sustaining a program.

Keywords: Billing; Cardio-oncology service line; Coding; Financial.