Out-of-Pocket Costs for Colonoscopy After Noninvasive Colorectal Cancer Screening Among US Adults With Commercial and Medicare Insurance

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Dec 1;4(12):e2136798. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.36798.

Abstract

This economic evaluation examines whether adult patients in the US who have commercial or Medicare insurance pay out-of-pocket costs associated with follow-up colonoscopy within 6 months of a noninvasive stool-based test.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Colonoscopy / economics*
  • Colorectal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Colorectal Neoplasms / economics
  • Early Detection of Cancer / economics*
  • Early Detection of Cancer / methods
  • Female
  • Health Expenditures / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Insurance, Health / economics*
  • Male
  • Medicare / statistics & numerical data
  • Middle Aged
  • United States