Can Medicare billing claims data be used to assess mammography utilization among women ages 65 and older?

Medical Care
Rebecca Smith-BindmanKarla Kerlikowske

Abstract

Medicare data may be a useful source for determining the utilization of mammography among elderly women, but the accuracy of these data has not been established. We determined whether Medicare physician billing claims are an accurate reflection of mammography utilization among women ages 65 and older and whether they can be used to assess the use of screening as compared with diagnostic mammography. Mammography use was assessed using Medicare billing claims and radiology reports from 2 mammography registries; the San Francisco Mammography Registry and the New Mexico Mammography Registry. Completeness of the Medicare data was assessed by comparing mammography use based on Medicare, with radiology reports from the mammography registries, which served as the referent standard. Capture rates for Medicare claims for individual mammograms were examined, and women were characterized as having undergone at least 1 mammogram within each 2-year period based on the Medicare data, and these rates were compared with the referent standard. To determine whether Medicare data can distinguish between screening and diagnostic mammography, we performed a classification analysis using the mammography registries screening/diagnostic designation as ...Continue Reading

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