ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2024
Risk for Financial Precarity From Hospitalization: Implications for Targeting Financial Assistance in Medicare.
Article in Annals of internal medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Personalized risk prediction of financial toxicity in patients with cancer: an interpretable machine learning study.JNCI cancer spectrum · 2026Article
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preventive and Chronic Disease Care in Medicare Advantage vs. Traditional Medicare.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundHigh out-of-pocket costs in Medicare may leave many beneficiaries in financial precarity. Beneficiaries with modest incomes are often ineligible for Medicaid (which covers most out-of-pocket Medicare costs) and may have insufficient resources to pay an unexpected health care bill. This has prompted calls to improve financial protections, but the target population remains uncharacterized.
objectiveTo identify beneficiaries who would face financial precarity if exposed to the Medicare Part A hospital deductible ($1600).
designCross-sectional study of the 2018 wave of the Health and Retirement Study.
settingUnited States.
participantsCommunity-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries with incomes greater than 100% to 400% or less of the federal poverty level. MEASUREMENTS: Nationally representative estimates of financial precarity, defined as having insufficient funds to pay the deductible, examined across 4 scenarios that considered checking and savings account balances, total liquid assets (with a reserve for future living costs), and supplemental insurance.
resultsAmong 4881 beneficiaries (population weighted LIMITATION: Cost-sharing exposure is limited to hospitalization.
conclusionMany Medicare beneficiaries with modest incomes are at risk for financial hardship from costs of a single hospital stay. PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE: National Institute on Aging.
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