Out-of-Pocket Spending and Financial Burden Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

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

Objectives

To measure out-of-pocket (OOP) costs incurred by Medicare beneficiaries with cancer and identify which factors and services contribute to high OOP costs.

Design, setting, and participants

We prospectively collected survey data from 18 166 community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries, including 1409 individuals who were diagnosed with cancer during the study period, who participated in the January 1, 2002, to December 31, 2012, waves of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative panel study of US residents older than 50 years. Data analysis was performed from July 1, 2014, to J

SUBMITTER: Narang AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5441971 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature