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Access to Medicare Yields Increased Diagnoses of Undiagnosed Problems

Key Findings:

  • Patients are 50% more likely to get breast cancer screening and twice as likely to get colorectal cancer screening once on Medicare.
  • Patients are also more likely to be newly diagnosed with lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, depression, and COPD in the year in which they have their first Medicare encounter.
Access to Medicare Yields Increased Diagnoses of Undiagnosed Problemshttps://epicresearch.org/articles/the-medicare-effect-screening-and-diagnosis-rates-increase-in-the-first-year-of-medicare-coverageOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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