Cost-Sharing and Out-of-Pocket Cost for Women Who Received MRI for Breast Cancer Screening.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The financial protection of the prevention provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) doesn't apply to breast MRI but only to mammography for breast cancer screening. The purpose of the study is to examine the financial burden among women who received breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for screening.

Methods

This observational study used the Marketscan database. Women who underwent breast MRI between 2009 and 2017 and had screening mammography within 6 months of the MRI were included. We compared the time trend of the proportion of zero cost-share for women undergoing screening mammography and that for MRI. We quantified out-of-pocket (OOP) costs as the sum of copayment, coinsurance, and deductible and defined zero cost-share as having no OOP cost. We conduct

SUBMITTER: Pan IW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8826560 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature