Evaluation of Internet-Based Crowdsourced Fundraising to Cover Health Care Costs in the United States

Suveen Angraal; Arun George Zachariah; Raaisa Raaisa; Rohan Khera; Praveen Rao; Harlan M Krumholz; John A Spertus

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.33157

Evaluation of Internet-Based Crowdsourced Fundraising to Cover Health Care Costs in the United States

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jan 4;4(1):e2033157. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.33157.

Authors

Suveen Angraal¹, Arun George Zachariah², Raaisa Raaisa³, Rohan Khera^{4

5}, Praveen Rao^{2

6}, Harlan M Krumholz^{4

5

7}, John A Spertus⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City.
² Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁶ Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Missouri, Columbia.
⁷ Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁸ Health Outcomes Research, St Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City.

Abstract

This serial cross-sectional study examines online crowdsourced fundraising for US health care costs from 2010 to 2018 and evaluates whether there are trends by medical condition and geographic distribution.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Cross-Sectional Studies
Crowdsourcing*
Fund Raising*
Health Care Costs*
Humans
Internet*
United States

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States