Cancer care is becoming increasingly expensive and burdensome on patients.
Almost 60% of cancer survivors under the Medicare age report financial difficulty with many taking on debt or entering precarious financial arrangements like credit card debt or payday loans to cope; cancer accounts for 40% of medical campaigns on GoFundMe....
The increasing burden of prior authorization, as well as the rise of “fail first” policies has become costly and harmful for patients – so much so that the American Medical Association (AMA) has engaged a law firm to pursue curtailing prior authorization.
According to the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMA), Barbara...