Medicare coverage of routine screening for thyroid dysfunction / Marc B. Stone and Robert B. Wallace, editors ; Committee on Medicare Coverage of Routine Thyroid Screening, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stone, Marc B.

Wallace, Robert B., 1942-

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Medicare Coverage of Routine Thyroid Screening.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thyroid gland--Diseases.

Thyroid gland.

Medical screening--United States.

Medical screening.

Medicare.

Physical Description:

135 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Pres, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When the Medicare program was established in 1965, it was viewed as a form of financial protection for the elderly against catastrophic medical expenses, primarily those related to hospitalization for unexpected illnesses. The first expansions to the program increased the eligible population from the retired to the disabled and to persons receiving chronic renal dialysis. It was not until 1980 that an expansion of services beyond those required "for the diagnosis or treatment of illness or injury or to improve the functioning of a malformed body member" was included in Medicare. These services, known as preventive services, are intended either to prevent disease (by vaccination) or to detect disease (by diagnostic test) before the symptoms of illness appear. A Committee was formed "to conduct a study on the addition of coverage of routine thyroid screening using a thyroid stimulating hormone test as a preventive benefit provided to Medicare beneficiaries under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act for some or all Medicare beneficiaries."

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Pathophysiology and diagnosis of thyroid disease

3. Prevelance and consequences of thyroid dysfuntion

4. Screening for thyroid dysfuntion

5. The cost of coverage

6. Conclusions and recommendations.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610179947

9780309168106

0309168104

9781280179945

1280179945

9780309526784

0309526787

OCLC:

53989964