Medscape August 24, 2023
Patricia McKnight

TOPLINE:

  • Patients are more likely to be screened for breast and colorectal cancer after becoming eligible for Medicare and are more likely to be newly diagnosed with lung, breast, prostate, or colorectal cancer during their first Medicare-covered encounter compared with the 5 years before or after.

METHODOLOGY:

  • Researchers used data from Cosmos, a HIPAA-defined limited dataset with more than 193 million patients across 208 organizations that use Epic electronic health records.

  • The population in this analysis included more than 20 million patients aged 60-70 with at least one non-Medicare encounter before age 65 and at least one Medicare encounter after age 65.

  • Researchers used billing codes to identify screenings...

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