TABLE 1.
Characteristic, Column Mean and Percentagea | Females Aged 21-64 Years N=2,136,511 | Females Aged 40-64 Years N=792,470 | Males and Females Aged 50-64 Years N = 769,729 |
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Type of Screening | Cervical Cancer | Breast Cancer | Colorectal Cancer |
Mean age, y | 40 | 50 | 56 |
Female, % | 100.0 | 100.0 | 59.5 |
Race/ethnicity, % | |||
White | 51.7 | 48.6 | 49.9 |
Black | 27.6 | 27.7 | 25.5 |
Hispanic | 10.5 | 9.9 | 9.8 |
Other race | 10.2 | 13.9 | 14.8 |
No. of chronic conditions, % | |||
1 | 22.9 | 26.7 | 26.1 |
≥2 | 24.1 | 40.4 | 46.2 |
Residence, % | |||
Large metropolitan area | 36.3 | 36.7 | 43.7 |
Small metropolitan area | 35.0 | 34.2 | 30.4 |
Nonmetropolitan area adjacent to metropolitan area | 17.7 | 18.3 | 15.8 |
Nonmetropolitan area not adjacent to metropolitan area | 11.1 | 10.8 | 10.1 |
Medicaid eligibility category, % | |||
Parent | 43.7 | 21.7 | 9.3 |
Blind/disabled | 47.3 | 71.2 | 86.5 |
Medically needy | 9.0 | 7.1 | 4.2 |
Less restrictive income eligibility requirement, % | 41.9 | 45.0 | 56.8 |
Less restrictive financial asset requirements, % | 27.0 | 18.3 | 23.1 |
Frequency of Medicaid renewal <12 mo, % | 20.7 | 21.4 | 19.2 |
Physician copayment in the state of residence, % | 59.6 | 66.9 | 57.9 |
Receipt of cancer screening test, % | |||
Colonoscopy | – | – | 5.7 |
FOBTb | – | – | 4.4 |
Digital or film mammography | – | 20.3 | – |
Pap test | 25.8 | – | – |
Abbreviations: FOBT, fecal occult blood test; Pap, Papanicolaou.
Percentages were weighted by the number of months an individual was enrolled in fee-for-service Medicaid.
The numbers of Medicaid enrollees eligible for FOBT and for colonoscopy differ because the colonoscopy population (769,729 individuals) excluded enrollees who received an FOBT earlier in the observation period and the FOBT population (753,868) excluded enrollees who underwent a colonoscopy earlier in the observation period.