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Health insurance co-payments deter mammography use

A new Brown University study shows that even small health insurance co-payments have a big effect on mammography rates. Rates for receiving these critical breast cancer screening exams were 8 percent lower in plans requiring co-payments compared with plans with full health insurance coverage. Researchers at Brown's Alpert Medical School and Harvard Medical School publish their results in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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