ArticleJournal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management]2020
Does Medicare Coverage Improve Cancer Detection and Mortality Outcomes?
Article in Journal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management], 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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- Effects of Medicaid managed care on early detection of cancer: Evidence from mandatory Medicaid managed care program in Pennsylvania.Health services research · 2024Article
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- Effects of Medicare eligibility and enrollment at age 65 years on the use of high-value and low-value care.Health services research · 2023Article
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- Cancer Survivorship and Supportive Care Economics Research: Current Challenges and Next Steps.Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2022Review
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- Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved?The journal of economic perspectives : a journal of the American Economic Association · 2021Article
- The U.S. Health Care System on the Eve of the Covid-19 Epidemic: A Summary of Recent Evidence on Its Impaired Performance.International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation · 2020Article
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Abstract
Medicare is a large government health insurance program in the United States that covers about 60 million people. This paper analyzes the effects of Medicare insurance on health for a group of people in urgent need of medical care: people with cancer. We used a regression discontinuity design to assess impacts of near-universal Medicare insurance at age 65 on cancer detection and outcomes, using population-based cancer registries and vital statistics data. Our analysis focused on the three tumor sites for which screening is recommended both before and after age 65: breast, colorectal, and lung cancer. At age 65, cancer detection increased by 72 per 100,000 population among women and 33 per 100,000 population among men; cancer mortality also decreased by nine per 100,000 population for women but did not significantly change for men. In a placebo check, we found no comparable changes at age 65 in Canada. This study provides the first evidence to our knowledge that near-universal access to Medicare at age 65 is associated with improvements in population-level cancer mortality.
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