CHICAGO — Colorectal cancer screening rates at so-called Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in 2021 were higher in states that had accepted funding from the federal government to expand access to Medicaid compared with those that had not, a researcher said here.
But the data also suggested that Medicaid expansion didn’t eliminate all financial barriers to screening.
Testing rates at FQHCs (n=1,284) in 2021, which had seen some 6.9 million patients ages 50-74 who would be eligible for screening, were 42.1% in Medicaid expansion states versus 36.5% in non-expansion states (P Source : MedPageToday
