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Effectiveness of Medicare cost-sharing elimination for Cancer screening on utilization

BACKGROUND: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) eliminated the cost-sharing requirement for several preventive cancer screenings. This study examined the cancer screening utilization of mammogram, Pap smear and colonoscopy in Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) under the ACA. METHODS: Th...

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Autores principales: Xu, Wendy Yi, Wickizer, Thomas M., Jung, Jeah Kyoungrae
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31208422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4135-9