"I thought there would be more I understood": health insurance literacy among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.
Austin R WatersKarely MannEcho L WarnerPerla L Vaca LopezHeydon K KaddasNicole RayTomoko TsukamotoDouglas B FairMark A LewisGiselle K PerezElyse R ParkAnne C KirchhoffPublished in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2022)
Our findings, while requiring confirmation in larger samples and in other health systems, suggest that the health insurance literacy needed to navigate insurance and cancer care is low among US AYA survivors and may have health and financial implications. As the burden of navigating insurance is often put on patients, health insurance education is an important supportive service for AYA survivors on and off of treatment.