tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 27

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Medicare Patients Don't Get Benefit of Preventive Care

Patients slip through the cracks, agency states Few beneficiaries are receiving all the preventive benefits that Medicare is supposed to cover, the General Accounting Office states in a new report titled "Most Beneficiaries Receive Some but Not All Recommended Preventive Services" (GAO-03-958). The report, submitted to the chairman of the House Commerce and Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, found that about 30 percent of beneficiaries didn't receive flu shots in 2000 and 37 percent had never been vaccinated against pneumonia. A 1999-2000 survey of patients with high cholesterol found that a third had never been told this fact...

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