Financial and Insurance Assistance- Oncology Financial and Legal Navigation Program

Jean Edward

Status: Completed

Conditions: Financial Stress; Pediatric Cancer

Treatments: Other: FINassist Caregiver; Other: FINassist Patient

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05876325

57238

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall objective of this study was to develop and evaluate FINassist (Financial and Insurance Navigation Assistance), a patient-centered, interdisciplinary team-based oncology financial and legal navigation program. The program leverages Medical Legal Partnerships to enhance cost of care conversations with pediatric oncology patients and caregivers. FINassist optimizes the team-based care model by integrating clinicians, social workers, financial navigators, and legal advocates who work in tandem to enhance cost of care conversations with patients and caregivers, identify and intervene on patient socio-legal needs, and advocate for system-level changes.

Enrollment: 61 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Caregivers of patients who have any cancer or hematologic disorder diagnosis at the DanceBlue Pediatric Hematology/oncology clinic at Kentucky Children's hospital
• Patients with childhood cancers and/or hematologic disorders at the DanceBlue Pediatric Hematology/oncology clinic at Kentucky Children's hospital
• 18 years and older

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to provide consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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61 participants in 1 patient group

Financial Navigation and Insurance Assistance (FINassist)

Experimental group

Description:

FINassist is a comprehensive oncology financial and legal navigation program in oncology care

Treatment:

Other: FINassist Patient

Other: FINassist Caregiver