Patients Are More Likely To Get Cancer Screenings Once on Medicare, Report Finds
For breast cancer, 20.5% of patients received a screening in the year prior to being on Medicare, compared to 30.4% in the first year of being on Medicare, according to an Epic Research report. For colorectal cancer, screening rates jumped from 6% in the year before being on Medicare to 11% in the first year of being on Medicare.
