Care cascades following low‐value cervical cancer screening in dually enrolled Veterans

• Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) Vol. 72; no. 7; pp. 2091 - 2099
• Main Authors: Pickering, Aimee N., Zhao, Xinhua, Sileanu, Florentina E., Lovelace, Elijah Z., Rose, Liam, Schwartz, Aaron L., Hale, Jennifer A., Schleiden, Loren J., Gellad, Walid F., Fine, Michael J., Thorpe, Carolyn T., Radomski, Thomas R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.07.2024; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cancer screening; Cervical cancer; cervical cancer screening; Early Detection of Cancer - economics; Early Detection of Cancer - statistics & numerical data; Female; Humans; low‐value care; Medical screening; Medicare; Medicare - economics; Medicare - statistics & numerical data; Older people; Retrospective Studies; United States; United States Department of Veterans Affairs; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - diagnosis; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - economics; Veterans - statistics & numerical data; Veterans Health Administration; United States; cervical cancer screening; Veterans Health Administration; low‐value care

Background Veterans dually enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) and Medicare commonly experience downstream services as part of a care cascade after an initial low‐value service. Our objective was to characterize the frequency and cost of low‐value cervical cancer screening and subseq...