The Affordable Care Act and Ethnic Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cost sharing can deter the use of health services and act as a potential contributor to racial/ethnic disparities in cancer. The Affordable Care Act required most health plans to cover, without cost sharing, preventive services, including colorectal cancer screening. Population-based data were used to estimate the impact of the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing provision (together with other Affordable Care Act provisions targeting preventive care) on ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer screening, comparing Hispanics with non-Hispanics.

Methods

An interrupted time series quasi-experimental analysis was used to examine ethnic differences in colorectal cancer screening pre- and post-implementation of the Affordable Care Act (analysis performed in 2018). The s

SUBMITTER: Mbah OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8285085 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature