A doctor outside the area said Jefferson's exclusion of Alliance Cancer Specialists physicians from Torresdale Hospital was"aggressive" example of health system retaliation against outside doctors.Alliance’s founder, Allen Terzian, helped bring radiation therapy to the hospital and leased space there for an infusion center for more than 25 years., as it expanded across the Philadelphia region.
“The treatment of cancer is an evolving area where treatment guidelines and protocols are constantly being revised, and it can be more difficult for hospitals to get independent physicians to agree and follow those same guidelines or protocols,” Grauman said.veteran Jefferson primary care physician, who declined to be quoted by name because he was not authorized to speak publicly about his employer.
The three Jefferson Northeast Hospitals, including Torresdale, which operate under one license, became 340B hospitals in 2017, after Thomas Jefferson University acquired them, according to federal records. Jefferson did not respond to a request for details on much money it saves through 340B. When Jefferson acquired Torresdale, Terzian was chief of oncology and Alliance’s center there had 18 chemotherapy chairs.