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Systemic treatments for advanced prostate cancer: relationship between health insurance plan and treatment costs.

Deborah R KayeHui-Jie LeeAlexander GordeeDaniel J GeorgeCharles D ScalesPeter A UbelM Kate Bundorf
Published in: The American journal of managed care (2024)
The extent to which patient OOP payments for drugs reflect differences in gross payments made by insurers varies across health insurance plan types. However, even though OOP payments for the same treatment differ across plan types, treatment choice is not significantly different across type of health insurance after controlling for patient characteristics.
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