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Understanding patients’ attitudes toward communication about the cost of cancer care

PURPOSE: Recent publications have promoted physician-patient communication on cost as a means of decreasing overall spending and minimizing patients’ financial burden in oncology. No study has assessed patients’ perspectives on cost communication in oncology. We sought to describe oncology patients’ attitudes toward cost communication, explore potential predictors for patients’ communication preferences, and assess

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Insurance and inpatient care: differences in length of stay and costs between surgically treated cancer patients

BACKGROUND: Early research demonstrated that patients’ length-of-stay and inpatient costs varied according to their health insurance status. The authors of the current report studied a population-based sample of privately insured, Medicaid-insured, and uninsured inpatients ages 21 to 64 years who underwent surgical resection for either nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (n = 781) or colorectal cancer (CRC) (n = 8190)

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