Routine cancer screenings, such as mammograms and colonoscopies are covered by health insurance. But what happens if you need a diagnostic test as follow up?
for follow-up tests in 2017, according to the study by Fendrick and several colleagues, and published by JAMA Network Open.
The colonoscopy was unremarkable: It found a few benign polyps, or clusters of cells, that the physician snipped out during the procedure. But Vorhis was floored by the $7,000 he owed under his individual health plan. His first colonoscopy several years earlier hadn’t cost him a cent. The new rule may encourage more people to get colorectal cancer screenings, cancer experts said, because people can take a stool-based test at home.
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