IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/10.2105-ajph.2014.301877_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Navigating the murky waters of colorectal cancer screening and health reform

Author

Listed:
  • Green, B.B.
  • Coronado, G.D.
  • Devoe, J.E.
  • Allison, J.

Abstract

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that both Medicaid and insurance plans cover life-saving preventive services recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force, including colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and choice between colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, and fecal occult blood testing (FOBT). People who choose FOBT or sigmoidoscopy as their initial test could face high, unexpected, out-of-pocket costs because the mandate does not cover needed follow-up colonoscopies after positive tests. Some people will have no coverage for any CRC screening because of lack of state participation in the ACA or because they do not qualify (e.g., immigrant workers). Existing disparities in CRC screening and mortality will worsen if policies are not corrected to fully cover both initial and follow-up testing.

Suggested Citation

  • Green, B.B. & Coronado, G.D. & Devoe, J.E. & Allison, J., 2014. "Navigating the murky waters of colorectal cancer screening and health reform," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 104(6), pages 982-986.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2014.301877_5
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301877
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2105/AJPH.2014.301877
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2105/AJPH.2014.301877?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mary K. Hamman & Kandice A. Kapinos, 2016. "Colorectal Cancer Screening and State Health Insurance Mandates," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(2), pages 178-191, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2014.301877_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.