The Impact of Medicare Funding on the Use of Mammography among Older Women: Implications for Improving Access to Screening
Preventive MedicinePublished 1 December 2000
Margaret Kelaher, Jeanne Mager Stellman
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It is suggested that simply removing financial barriers to mammography for older women (such as the 1998 elimination of a deductible payment for mammograms provided under Medicare) may have limited effectiveness and disparities in mammography use may reflect inequalities in access to health care in general.
Abstract
This analysis suggests that simply removing financial barriers to mammography for older women (such as the 1998 elimination of a deductible payment for mammograms provided under Medicare) may have limited effectiveness. The strong relationship between having a usual source of care and mammography suggests that disparities in mammography use may reflect inequalities in access to health care in general.
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