Importance Medicare beneficiaries with cancer are at risk for financial hardship given
increasingly expensive cancer care and significant cost sharing by beneficiaries. Objectives …

BACKGROUND: There is increasing concern regarding the financial burden of care on
cancer patients and their families. Medicare beneficiaries often have extensive comorbidities …

Purpose To compare the prevalence of high out-of-pocket burdens among patients with
cancer with other chronically ill and well patients, and to examine the sociodemographic …

Introduction There is increasing concern regarding the financial burden of cancer on
patients and their families. This study presents nationally representative estimates of annual …

On average, cancer survivors had significantly higher annual out-of-pocket medical
expenditures than did persons without a cancer history. Overall, 25% of survivors reported …

Background: Out-of-pocket costs pose a substantial economic burden to cancer patients and
their families. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the literature on out-of-pocket costs …

Cancer survivors spend more out of pocket (OOP) for medical care than their counterparts
without a cancer history, a pattern that persists many years after cancer diagnosis and …

Abstract Background The American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, and North American Association of Central Cancer …

Importance Cancer survivors face ongoing health issues and need access to affordable
health care, yet studies examining health care access and affordability in this population are …

Background We estimated trends in total and out-of-pocket (OOP) costs around the first year
of diagnosis for privately insured nonelderly adult cancer patients. Methods We constructed …