NCT05465577

Coverage and Cost-of-Care (CC) Links- Financial Navigation Program

Coverage and Cost-of-Care Links Financial Navigation Program in Hematology and Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 94 (actual)
• Sponsor: Jean Edward · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This trial is a mixed-methods, non-randomized design guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to develop, implement, and evaluate Coverage and Cost-of-Care Links (CC Links) -a novel financial navigation intervention for hematologic cancer survivors and their caregivers.

Detailed description

The CC Links intervention included an oncology financial navigator who worked in the Hematology-Oncology Clinic. The navigator's functions included: screening for financial hardship to identify unmet financial needs (using the Comprehensive Score for Financial Toxicity (COST) and National Comprehensive Cancer Network's Distress Thermometer; initiating cost of care conversations; providing cost of care estimates; ensuring adequate health insurance coverage and assisting with applying for additional coverage; assisting with internal financial assistance program applications; connecting survivors/caregivers with disease specific resources and other external assistance programs; coordinating discharge planning; referring survivors to social workers and other staff/resources as needed; and, coordinating financial assistance services as survivors/caregivers transition between outpatient and inpatient settings.

Conditions

• Financial Stress
• Hematologic Cancer
• Survivorship

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	CC Links	The CC Links intervention is built on a platform of interdisciplinary team-based science, which ensured that the financial navigator worked closely with other members of the healthcare team including oncologists, nurses, transplant coordinators, social workers, and case managers, to help enhance financial hardship screening and connect survivors and caregivers with financial assistance services.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-01
• Primary completion: 2022-02-01
• Completion: 2022-02-01
• First posted: 2022-07-20
• Last updated: 2024-07-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States