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In this issue of the Journal, Trivedi and colleagues¹ examine the effect of cost sharing on the use of screening mammography among women enrolled in Medicare managed-care plans from 2001 to 2004. Focusing on more than 350,000 women between the ages of 65 and 69 years, the authors show that cost sharing — either in the form of copayments (in which patients pay flat fees when they receive services) or coinsurance (in which patients pay a fixed percentage of the cost of those services) — reduces the number of women who undergo mammography. The effects are large relative to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Health Outcomes Research Group, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.

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Effect of Cost Sharing on Screening Mammography
Dhalla I. A., Kiran T., Golden H. E., Trivedi A. N., Rakowski W., Ayanian J. Z.
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N Engl J Med 2008; 358:2411-2412, May 29, 2008. Correspondence

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