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- Title
Online Crowdfunding Campaigns for Diabetes-Related Expenses.
- Authors
Sloan, Caroline E.; Campagna, Ada; Tu, Karissa; Doerstling, Steven; Davis, J. Kelly; Ubel, Peter A.
- Abstract
The expenses for which patients use crowdfunding include life-sustaining expenses, such as food and hospitalizations; unproven therapies, such as diabetic alert dogs; and less essential indirect costs, such as personal trainers. 12 †† Expenses were listed as "unspecified" if campaigns requested money for diabetes care but it was unclear what the expenses were for. I Background: i More than 40% of patients with diabetes in the United States have trouble paying their medical bills.
- Subjects
CROWD funding; HEALTH insurance; INSULIN pumps; COST; MEDICAL care costs; TYPE 1 diabetes; FINANCIAL stress; BLOOD sugar monitors
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2023, Vol 176, Issue 7, p1012
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7326/M23-0540