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Copayments discourage mammography screenings.(in the news)(Brief article)
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April 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 American Society of Radiologic Technologists. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Research finds that even modest health insurance copayments discourage older women from getting mammograms.
The American Cancer Society recommends that women older than 40 years get annual mammograms to increase the odds of early breast cancer detection and treatment. A 2006 survey found that the most common copayment for a medical office visit doubled since 2001.
In the study, copayments for a mammogram ranged from $12.50 to $35. From 2002 to 2004, screening rates decreased by 6 percent in plans that introduced copayments, while screening rates increased by 3 percent ...
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Government Says Health Care Improving
AP Online;
January 11, 2007 ;
633 words
......quality of the U.S. health care system continues...annual national health care quality and disparities...split in access to health care, with poor and...and quality of health care. Finding ways to...If we can show health care organizations how...And ...
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Health-care quality improves but prevention still lags, study finds
Charleston Gazette;
January 12, 2007 ;
The Associated Press;
632 words
......quality of the U.S. health-care system continues...annual national health- care quality and disparities...split in access to health care, with poor and...and quality of health care. Finding ways to...If we can show health care organizations how...And ...
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Health care evolution: New roles for family and consumer professionals
Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences;
January 1, 1999 ;
Rider, Mary Ellen; Riportella-Muller, Roberta;
787 words
...ABSTRACT The health care evolution affects families in how they use and pay for health care. Communities face changes in the types of...community members make choices to use the health care system. The purpose of this paper is to describe...
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Managed care: employer's influence on the health care system.
Nursing Economics;
July 1, 1996 ;
Corder, Karen T. Phoon, Janet Barter, Marjorie;
787 words
...Health care consumers and purchasers are demanding...and accessibility of services from the health care industry and its providers. Kerfoot and...merging of hospitals into integrated health care networks (p. 280). The reform momentum...
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Can health insurance costs be controlled? (Symposium: Health Care)
Review of Business;
December 22, 1992 ;
Paul, Robert J. Townsend, James B.;
787 words
...Health care insurance has been available to employees for more than...free to employees or were offered at a very low cost. Health care insurance is no longer inexpensive. Health care costs have increased the cost of medical insurance.|1...
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Quality: Will it become the benchmark for managing HEALTH CARE COSTS?
Corporate Report Wisconsin;
May 1, 2004 ;
Dernovsek, Darla;
787 words
...Measuring health care quality may prove to be the best long-term strategy for controlling health care expenses. But in the short term, businesses...double-digit increases in the cost of employee health care benefits. A Wisconsin example of how employers...
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Reforming Health Care in Europe.
West European Politics;
April 1, 2000 ;
FREEMAN, RICHARD MORAN, MICHAEL;
787 words
...Health care policy has been a crucible of welfare reform in Europe for a quarter...first arises from what might be called the welfare dimension of health care. Health care matters. Not often, but sometimes, it is a matter of life and death...
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Health care bills of rights
Marketplace;
February 3, 1998 ;
Anonymous;
787 words
...Health care -- from self-insured plans to health...Throughout the country today, we have a health care system that often limits particular services...However, we should never deny patients the health care they need. People need choices when selecting...
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State feels pain from health care
Indianapolis Business Journal;
October 15, 2007 ;
Wall, J K;
787 words
...Is health care making Indiana's economy sick? Spending on health care is rising faster in Indiana than it is across the...1991, the average Hoosier spent just 94 cents on health care for every dollar the average American spent. But...
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A family health care system. (Editorial)
American Family Physician;
September 1, 1992 ;
Botelho, Richard J.;
787 words
...National health care systems take on many forms and provide health care as a human right. The United States is the only...democratic nation in the Western world without a national health care system to assure equitable access to health care...
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New Voice in Health Care Debate Launches.
PR Newswire;
April 6, 2006 ;
527 words
...Health Care America Favors Choice for Consumers...Control WASHINGTON, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Care America, a non-partisan, non-profit organization...common sense solutions to improving our health care system without furthering government...
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Health Care I.T. Stocks Surge, but the Future is Uncertain.
Health Data Management;
February 1, 2005 ;
Gillespie, Greg;
560 words
...Health care information technology stocks, as usual...year. The price of a marketbasket of 23 health care I.T. stocks tracked by New York-based...during the fourth quarter. A bump for health care I.T. stocks in the fourth quarter has...
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Health care spending eases
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
February 12, 2004 ;
535 words
...Health care spending eases, but huge growth predicted...government said Wednesday the growth of health care spending in the United States slowed...and Medicaid Services projected that health care spending in the United States grew to...
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