Clinical Factors Associated With Cost in Head and Neck Cancer: Implications for a Bundled Payment Model.

Purpose: To determine which factors influence cost in head and neck cancer (HNC) to inform the development of a bundled payment model (BPM).

Methods: Patients with stages 0 to IVB (by American Joint Commission on Cancer, 7th edition) HNC of various sites and histology treated definitively at a single tertiary care center during 2013 were included. Clinical variables and direct cost data were obtained, and their associations were investigated using χ, , Wilcoxon rank sum, and analysis of variance testing.