July 26, 2017

Shopping for Health Insurance? Buyer Beware, Especially If You Have Cancer

In an op-ed published by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Laura Yasaitis, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI); Daniel Polsky, PhD, the LDI executive director; and Justin E. Bekelman, MD, an LDI senior fellow and associate professor of Radiation Oncology and Medical Ethics & Health Policy, argue for more transparency from insurance providers in light of their study, which shows that narrow-network plans commonly exclude NCI-designated cancer centers.

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