Screening Mammography for Free: Impact of Eliminating Cost Sharing on Cancer Screening Rates.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To study the impact of eliminating cost sharing for screening mammography on mammography rates in a large Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan which in 2010 eliminated cost sharing in anticipation of the Affordable Care Act mandate.

Study setting

Large MA health maintenance organization offering individual-subscriber MA insurance and employer-supplemented group MA insurance.

Study design

We investigated the impact on breast cancer screening of a policy that eliminated a $20 copayment for screening mammography in 2010 among 53,188 women continuously enrolled from 2007 to 2012 in an individual-subscriber MA plan, compared with 42,473 women with employer-supplemented group MA insurance in the same health maintenance organization who had full screening coverage

SUBMITTER: Jena AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5264125 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature