BACKGROUND: Though many patients and physicians believe that they should discuss out-of-pocket costs, research suggests that they infrequently do. OBJECTIVE: To examine barriers preventing patient-physician communication about out-of-pocket costs among study subjects recalling a time when they wanted to discuss these costs but did not do so. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Cross-sectional surveys of 133 general
Barriers to patient-physician communication about out-of-pocket costs
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