A proposal for the deinstitutionalization of patients.
Outpatient treatment of cancer patients, often medically and psychologically sound, results in great savings for insurers but increased out-of-pocket expenses to patients. If insurers were to reimburse for nonmedical out-of-pocket costs as well as medical, this disincentive to deinstitutionalization would be removed.
D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000191:economics*; D002173:Cancer Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007343:Insurance Carriers / Q000191:economics; D008396:Maryland; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy