. This study examines if the annual quarter within which a patient is diagnosed with cancer has an impact on the OOP costs … the timing of cancer diagnosis has a significant impact on OOP costs. Specifically, patients diagnosed in the fourth … year. This pattern persists after controlling for different types of cancer and different stages of cancer and robustness …

of a high-need patient group: people diagnosed with cancer. The Australian system for these services is predominantly … costs for patients in the 12 months following on cancer diagnosis and find a large variation in these costs according to the …