Reallocating Cervical Cancer Preventive Service Spending from Low- to High-Value Clinical Scenarios.

Unlabelled: Timely follow-up care after an abnormal cervical cancer screening test result is critical to the prevention and early diagnosis of cervical cancer. The current inadequate and inequitable delivery of these potentially life-saving services is attributed to several factors, including patient out-of-pocket costs. Waiving of consumer cost-sharing for follow-up testing (e.

Factors Associated With Imaging of Nontraumatic Headaches in Virginia Emergency Departments.

Purpose: To explore whether patient-reported demographics and hospital classifications were significant factors in the likelihood that a computed tomography (CT) scan of the head would be ordered for nontraumatic headaches.

Methods: Nonexperimental, cross-sectional analysis was performed on a database that included 18 279 patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs) in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Information included in the analysis was diagnosis of a generalized, nontraumatic headache; patient age and sex; the treating hospital's profit status (ie, for-profit vs nonprofit); status of the hospital as a teaching institution; hospital location (ie, rural vs suburban and urban); diagnostic procedures ordered; and patient's insurance coverage (commercial insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid).