Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Era of the Affordable Care Act.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) eliminated cost-sharing for evidence-based preventive services in an effort to encourage use.

Objective

To evaluate use of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in a national population-based sample before and after implementation of the ACA.

Design

Repeated cross-sectional analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) between 2009 and 2012 comparing CRC screening rates before and after implementation of the ACA.

Participants

Adults 50-64 with private health insurance and adults 65-75 with Medicare.

Main measures

Self-reported receipt of screening colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, or fecal occult blood test (FOBT) within the past year among those eligible for screening.

Key results

Our study included 8617 a

SUBMITTER: Richman I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4762811 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature