tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 32

PREVENTIVE CARE: Your Medicare Patients Can Get Better Preventive Care Coverage

Medicare benes not taking advantage of covered preventive services, screenings.The day before economists Kenneth Thorpe and David Howard released their study on Medicare spending (see story on page 1), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it would launch a new risk-reduction demonstration for Medicare beneficiaries. The agency hinted that proper preventive services were available through Medicare, but that benes simply were not taking advantage of them.For example, only 45 percent of eligible benes had one claim for a colorectal cancer screening during 1998 through 2002, according to Medicare data. In the past two years...

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