TABLE 1.

Select Sociodemographic Characteristics and Cancer Screening Rates Within the Study Sample That Is Age-/Sex-Eligible for the Screening Test

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
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.

^aPercentages were weighted by the number of months an individual was enrolled in fee-for-service Medicaid.

^bThe 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.