Outcomes and Costs for Women After Breast Cancer: Preparing for Improved Survivorship of Medicare Beneficiaries.
Arseniy Pavlovich YashkinRachel A GreenupGalina GorbunovaIgor AkushevichKevin C OeffingerE Shelley HwangPublished in: JCO oncology practice (2020)
Improvements in BC survivorship are associated with intensive use of health care resources and substantially higher downstream costs among Medicare beneficiaries. Appropriate planning, in both the fiscal and the oncology care infrastructure, is required to prepare the health system for these emerging health care trends.