Laws designed to equalize out-of-pocket costs faced by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy — whether treated intravenously, with pills or liquid doses — are having mixed results, according to new research.
The study, published online this week by JAMA Oncology, found these so-called state “parity” laws have not uniformly reduced patients’ out-of-pocket spending.
The laws became popular in the past decade as pricey anti-cancer oral medications grew more common. They were intended to address the variation in what insurers expected patients to pay, depending on the form of chemo they received.
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