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Financial toxicity or financial distress is a concept within healthcare, where high cost of treatment, often at the end of life, causes negative effects and outcomes beyond those of the disease. Such "toxic" effects may impact family, friends and the surrounding community as well as the patient. The concept has primarily been used for cancer patients in the United States, but it extends to other disease. Critics connect the phenomenon to recent rises phenomena such as crowdfunded treatment, and a large increase in treatment costs combined with a lower coverage by insurance companies since the 2007-'08 financial crisis.

Causes may be profiteering, ... fraud such as promoting alternative medicine or quackery. .. Many countries prohibit alternative medicine from being marketed to cancer patients, with many private oncology clinics being accused of straddling the border of legality. Provisions in end of life care or extreme cases allowing for experimental treatment have been implicated as a cause. False hope

Effects are decreased treatment compliance ... decreased treatment efficacy, lowered quality of life ...

The term was coined by doctors Amy Abernethy and Yousuf Zafar in 2013. This was done in response to a percieved need to discuss and plan for financial effects of treatment, as well as to wish to place such effects in the framework of side effects of treatment.

Other diseases
SLE etc


 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=(%22financial+toxicity%22+OR+%22financial+distress%22)+NOT+%22cancer%22