Medicare beneficiaries face high out-of-pocket costs for cancer treatment

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - 14:02 in Health & Medicine

Beneficiaries of Medicare who develop cancer and don’t have supplemental health insurance incur out-of-pocket expenditures for their treatments averaging one-quarter of their income with some paying as high as 63 percent, according to results of a survey-based study.

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