“ Having to pay as little as $10 of a mammogram’s cost leads many older women to skip the breast cancer exam, a large study of Medicare users finds.
— Copays Lead Some to Skip Mammograms - washingtonpost.com Screening rates were more than 8 percent lower among women required to pay a copayment or percentage of the cost compared to those with full coverage, according to a study led by Dr. Amal Trivedi at Brown University. Results were published Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine.
