Native American Cancer Patients on Medicare Face Nearly Twice the Mortality Rate of Other Medicare Patients, Study Finds
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Via Red Lake Nation News
Native people with cancer who are enrolled in Medicare spend more money on treatment and die more often than the rest of Medicare patients with cancer, according to new research published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers analyzed Medicare claims data from 2016 to 2023, examining cancer diagnoses, mortality, hospitalizations, health care spending, cancer...
