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The Financial Side Effects of
Cancer Care
Barry Meisenberg M.D.
November 17. 2015
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Trending Topic
• NY Times, NBC news, Washington Post,
CBS 60 Minutes,
PBS…
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Scholarly interest in financial side effects
also increasing.
• PUB Med Citations for “Cancer Costs” double in 6
years.
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1895 articles in 2014
852 articles in 2006
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Why this Sudden Interests in Cancer Costs?
• Cancer Costs are high and growing (>10%
of total CMS spending)
• Newly approved agents making headlines
• Increasing % borne by patients
– higher deductibles
– more “cost sharing”
– specialty pharmacy assigns more costs to pts.
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NCI projections on National Cancer Costs
(assumes no rise in costs)
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+ 19%
+ 32% +28%
http://costprojections.cancer.gov/graph.php#
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NCI Prediction on Cancer Costs
(assumes 3% increase)
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+61% +32% +73%
http://costprojections.cancer.gov/graph.php#
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Financial Burden
Financial “Toxicity”
Financial Distress
“Financial Burden”: The total impact on financial status due to medical and
non-medical costs and loss of family income.
“Financial Distress”: Anxiety and Anguish related to financial concerns
“Financial Toxicity”: The financial injury that follows cancer diagnosis and
treatment-some of which MAY be modifiable
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High Financial Stress is associated with:
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• Medication Non-adherence
• Changed spending habits
• Loss of savings/increased
debt
• Declaring bankruptcy
• Poorer QOL
• Inferior Pt. Satisfaction
• Higher rate, and more
severe depression in both
pts and caregivers
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True Facts About Financial Toxicity in
Cancer Care
• Common: 40-60% report at least
moderate financial distress
• Worldwide phenomenon
• Long lasting (an inevitable consequence
of survivorship?)
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BhaBehaviors AAMC n=132 Others
Reduced
Discretionary
Spending
52% -----------
Liquidated
investments
-------- 30%
Increased
Personal Debt
26% 22% (MEDIAN
$24,000)
Delinquent
on Bills
22% ----------
Reduced
compliance
with
medications
6% 27%, 45%
Declared
personal
bankruptcy
1.5% 5%
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Behaviors
Associated
with
Financial Distress
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Cost Communication
• ASCO guidelines (2009)recommend
discussion of financial aspects of cancer RX
• Surveys indicate pts desire this
• But docs say: aware of pts financial issues
“most of the time” (54%) AND
“Always or Frequently” have cost discussions
(43%)
∙Pt surveys say this is rare (<20%)
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Why so rare?
Challenges of Cost Discussions
• Doctors don’t know what things “cost”
• Doctors don’t have expertise in different
types of insurance policies
• Ethical concerns about trading off costs
for the potential for less efficacy
• Uncertainty about how/when/what to
discuss with patients
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Cost Communication
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What do patients think about costs and cost
discussions?
• Survey at AAMC
–132 patients receiving radiation or
chemotherapy (94% response rate)
–All insured, median income $50-75,000
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Rates of Financial Distress
n=132 surveys
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28%
Mean out of pocket
costs $938/month
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Discussing Cancer Costs
• Only 30% felt well informed prior to therapy
• 88% seldom or rarely spoke about the cost of
cancer care with their oncologists.
• Even among pts with high financial distress, 75%
do not discuss costs.
• Why Not?
– 44% do not think it is the oncologists job
– Worry that regimens would be altered based
upon cost or doctor would think less of them.
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Patients do not think society’s costs should
influence treatment decisions
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72.7
58.8
73.6 71.1
9.1
35.3
22.619.318.2
5.9 3.89.7
0
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20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Low FinancialWellness
AverageFinancialWellness
High FinancialWellness
Overall
Pe
rce
nt
"Overall costs to society should be a major factor in deciding among treatment options."
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
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Patient’s (even low financial wellness patients) do not
think their own costs should influence treatment
decisions
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72.7 70.6
81.576.5
13.6 11.8 11.1 12.213.617.7
7.411.3
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Low FinancialWellness
Average FinancialWellness
High FinancialWellness
Overall
Pe
rce
nt
"My personal financial situation should be a major
factor in deciding among treatment options."
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
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Even when it is assumed that lower cost regimens are
equally effective, a minority of pts want the lower cost
regimen prescribed
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50
42.9 4144.9
22.2
28.630.8
2727.8 28.6 28.2 28.1
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Low FinancialWellness
AverageFinancialWellness
High FinancialWellness
Overall
Pe
rce
nt
"If there were more than one treatment plan that were roughly the same in terms of effectiveness, I would want my
doctor to prescribe the less costly one for me."
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
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Bulloch et al. Patient attitudes toward
Communication about the cost of cancer
care. J Oncol Prac 2012 8(4):e50-58)
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Cost Discussions?
• Regular dialogue between oncologists and pt is
rare
• Both parties avoid it
• Pts don’t necessarily desire discussion with
their oncologists
• Pts may not be willing partners in cost
reduction discussions as advocated by ASCO
– In other words, patients may not be “cost-sensitive”
• Why not?
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Why aren’t patients cost-sensitive?
• Pts may believe that there is a single
best therapy for their condition (only
sometimes true).
• ‘Anticipated regret’
• Bias toward newer or more costly drugs
–Bias reinforced by pharma and cancer
center marketing
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Building expectations
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The tag line-
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Action Steps at DeCesaris Cancer Institute
• Developed new financial burden
communication procedures to
identify, ameliorate and prevent
financial toxicity.
• Increased emphasis on ‘high value’
prescribing embraced by oncologists
• Raising awareness
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Focus on “Costs” is Cynical
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“What is a Cynic?
“A man, who knows the
price of everything but
the value of Nothing”
Oscar Wilde, Lady
Windermere’s Fan 1893
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VALUE
Side effects
Cost Benefit
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Towards Value in Cancer Care
• ASCO Value Framework
• NCCN value advisories
• But, what will patients think?– What do patients want/need to know?
– Who participates in the Shared Decision
Making with them?
– When should the discourse begin?
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Trouble Ahead
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