Lung Cancer Navigation Pilot: Nurse Outreach Support for Lung Cancer Patients Enrolled in the EOM
A presentation abstract from the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting describes preliminary results of a nurse outreach pilot aimed at reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and ED visits—a key quality metric for value-based care programs—among high-risk metastatic lung cancer patients enrolled in the Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM). Researchers found significantly lower rates of admissions (31% vs. 65%) and ED visits (27% vs. 52%) in the outreach group, as well as improvements in advance care planning support, hospice utilization, patient experience, and an estimated $2.6M in cost savings, suggesting targeted nurse navigation may be a scalable approach for improving outcomes in other high-risk oncology populations.