Impact of state-specific Medicaid reimbursement and eligibility policies on receipt of cancer screening

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 3016-3024

  Halpern, Michael T ^a   Romaire, Melissa A ^a   Haber, Susan G ^a   Tangka, Florence K ^b   Sabatino, Susan A ^b   Howard, David H ^c  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

access to health care; cancer screening; colonoscopy; health care disparities; health insurance reimbursement; mammography; Medicaid; Papanicolaou test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; COLOMBIA; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE ELIGIBILITY; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAID; OCCULT BLOOD; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COLON TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT; INSURANCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VAGINA SMEAR; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITIES; HEALTH INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAID; PAPANICOLAOU TEST;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCULT BLOOD; ODDS RATIO; OFFICE VISITS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84908505260     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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