Out-of-pocket health care expenditure burden for Medicare beneficiaries with cancer

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1257-1265

  Davidoff, Amy J ^a,b   Erten, Mujde ^a   Shaffer, Thomas ^a   Shoemaker, J Samantha ^a   Zuckerman, Ilene H ^a   Pandya, Naimish ^b   Tai, Ming Hui ^a   Ke, Xuehua ^a   Stuart, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

aged; Medicare; neoplasms; out of pocket burden

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874710718     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27848     Document Type: Article

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