Health insurance continuity and mortality in children, adolescents, and young adults with blood cancer
Continuous Medicaid coverage is associated with survival benefits among pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients with diagnosed blood cancers; however, fewer than half of Medicaid-insured patients have continuous coverage before diagnosis.
Authors
- Wendy Stock (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8349-9200)
- Patricia Daniels Cornwell
- K. Robin Yabroff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0644-5572)
- Xu Ji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3025-3984)
- Sharon M. Castellino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8367-2002)
- Shasha Bai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4999-327X)
- Ann Mertens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1649-4311)
- Xinyue Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2486-1107)
- Joseph Lipscomb
Institutions
- American Cancer Society (US)
- Emory University (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- University of Chicago Medical Center (US)
- Aflac (United States) (US)
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Published
- 2024-09-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djae226
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.33
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities