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Background: Indonesia integrated all social health insurance and social assistance program into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) aiming to achieve universal health coverage by 2019. Currently, 194 million people are registered in the NHIS. Lung cancer absorbed a significant amount of the NHIS Indonesia and one of the leading cause of deaths among men in Indonesia. Lung cancer is rising major public health concern due to a high prevalence of smokers yet most lung cancer is diagnosed at late stage leading to short survival rate in Indonesia. Aim: This study aimed at investigating access, utilization, and clinical outcomes of lung cancer's patients. The second aim is to investigate differences in access to treatments of lung cancer patients among different member groups of the NHIS. Methods: The data were drawn from a 2014-2015 claim of the NHIS. The number of lung cancer patients of the outpatient's care was 5939 in 2014 and was 6595 in 2015. The number of inpatients diagnosed with lung cancer wa...