Report to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality A Comparison of the Cost-Effectiveness of Fecal Occult Blood Tests with Different Test Characteristics in the Context of Annual Screening in the Medicare Population
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Based on a technology assessment that CMS requested from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and after consultation with appropriate organizations as required by the Medicare law, CMS has decided to provide for annual coverage of the screening iFOBT as an alternative to (or substitute for) the screening guaiac fecal-occult blood test (gFOBT), for all beneficiaries age 50 and older.
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