Trends in Breast Cancer Screening Costs Among Privately Insured Women Aged 40 to 64 Years

Ilana B Richman; Jessica B Long; Natalia Kunst; Kelly Kyanko; Xiao Xu; Susan Busch; Cary P Gross

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4832

Trends in Breast Cancer Screening Costs Among Privately Insured Women Aged 40 to 64 Years

JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Dec 1;181(12):1665-1668. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4832.

Authors

Ilana B Richman^{1

2}, Jessica B Long^{1

2}, Natalia Kunst^{2

3}, Kelly Kyanko⁴, Xiao Xu^{2

5}, Susan Busch^{2

6}, Cary P Gross^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) Center, Yale Cancer Center and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.
⁵ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁶ Department of Health and Policy Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.

Abstract

This cohort study characterizes changes in breast cancer screening costs as digital breast tomosynthesis has been adopted at both the patient and population levels.

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Breast Neoplasms / epidemiology
Early Detection of Cancer / economics*
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Insurance, Health / economics*
Middle Aged
Retrospective Studies
Time Factors

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding