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Pilot Feasibility Study of an Oncology Financial Navigation Program

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• ¹ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; University of Washington; Consumer Education and Training Services; United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of WA, Seattle, WA; and Patient Advocate Foundation, Hampton, VA.

• PMID: 29272200
• DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2017.024927

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Veena Shankaran et al. J Oncol Pract. 2018 Feb.

• ¹ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; University of Washington; Consumer Education and Training Services; United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of WA, Seattle, WA; and Patient Advocate Foundation, Hampton, VA.

• PMID: 29272200
• DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2017.024927

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Background: Few studies have reported on interventions to alleviate financial toxicity in patients with cancer. We developed a financial navigation program in collaboration with our partners, Consumer Education and Training Services (CENTS) and Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF), to improve patient knowledge about treatment costs, provide financial counseling, and to help manage out-of-pocket expenses. We conducted a pilot study to assess the feasibility and impact of this program.

Methods: Patients with cancer received a financial education course followed by monthly contact with a CENTS financial counselor and a PAF case manager for 6 months. We measured program adherence, self-reported financial burden and anxiety, program satisfaction, and type of assistance provided.

Results: Thirty-four patients (median age, 60.5 years) were consented (85% white and 50% commercially insured). Debt, income declines, and loans were reported by 55%, 55%, and 30% of patients, respectively. CENTS counselors assisted most often with budgeting, retirement planning, and medical bill questions. PAF case managers assisted with applications for appropriate insurance coverage, cost of living issues (eg, housing, transportation), and disability applications. High financial burden and anxiety about costs (4 or 5 on a Likert scale) were reported at baseline by 37% and 47% of patients, respectively. Anxiety about costs decreased over time in 33% of patients, whereas self-reported financial burden did not substantially change.

Conclusion: Implementing an oncology financial navigation program is feasible, provides concrete assistance in navigating the cost of care, and mitigates anxiety about costs in a subset of patients. Future work will focus on measuring the program's impact on financial and clinical outcomes.

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