“The ACS does not support stopping screening for anyone with a 10-plus year life expectancy irrespective of age.” Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, whose bill would require insurance companies to cover additional screenings for women with dense breasts, wrote that she worries the recommendations “...
One reason doctors rarely order supplemental screens like MRIs is cost: MRIs are ten times more expensive than mammograms, and insurance companies almost never cover them. Under most plans, dense breasts alone do not qualify women for MRIs without being coupled with other risk factors such as fam...
will appear in the April edition of theJournal of Consumer Research.In a series of experiments, the researchers demonstrated several interesting points about medication pricing, and those points held true, even if insurance – not the consumer – was going to pay for the treatments...