Associations of Financial Hardship and Health Status, Social Functioning, and Mental Health Among Cancer Survivors in the United States: Findings From a Nationally Representative Study Ulman ...

Dear Eric: The letter writer “Feeling Guilty” wrote about being financially strapped after cancer treatments and unable to tell their daughters. There are many financial assistance programs for her ...

Financial toxicity, or the financial burden patients experience because of medical costs, can lead to negative patient effects including lower quality of life, compromised clinical care, and worse ...

Housing assistance reduces medical financial hardship among cancer survivors by providing financial security and fewer cost-related healthcare barriers. Renters with housing assistance showed a lower ...

When Gury Doshi, MD, learned that a patient’s insurance didn’t cover her breast cancer medication, Doshi had a potential workaround. The patient could try to bypass the insurer and access the drug at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than a quarter of cancer-related crowdfunding stories explicitly related experiences of medical financial ...

CMS's 2024 update introduced Principal Illness Navigation codes, highlighting the importance of navigation services in cancer care. Financial navigation addresses the significant financial challenges ...

Patients with cancer enrolled in a novel digital support registry requested an average of $5921 per patient in financial assistance, with housing needs comprising 59% of the total $1.32 million ...

Compared with practices that do not screen for financial distress, practices that do were more likely to also screen for health-related social needs (61.1% vs 89.0%) and psychological distress (72.2% ...

(NewsNation) — Cancer is a sweeping and devastating killer that has touched most people in some way living in the United States. As of 2022, more than 18 million Americans were living with cancer, and ...