Catastrophic health expenditures, insurance churn, and nonemployment among gynecologic cancer patients in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the financial burden of severe illness, including associations with higher rates of nonemployment, uninsurance, and catastrophic out-of-pocket health spending. Patients with gynecologic cancer often require expensive and prolonged treatments, potentially disrupting employment and insurance coverage access, and putting patients and their families at risk for catastrophic health expenditures.

Objective

This study aimed to describe the prevalence of insurance churn, nonemployment, and catastrophic health expenditures among nonelderly patients with gynecologic cancer in the United States, to compare within subgroups and to other populations and assess for changes associated with the Affordable Care Act.

Study d

SUBMITTER: Albright BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10016333 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature