The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends reducing client out-of-pocket costs to increase screening for breast cancers. Interventions to reduce client out-of-pocket costs attempt to minimize or remove economic barriers that make it difficult for clients to access cancer screening services. Costs can be reduced through a variety of approaches, including vouchers, reimbursements, reduction in copays, or adjustments in federal or state insurance coverage. Efforts to reduce client costs may be combined with measures to provide client education, information about program availability, or measures to reduce structural barriers.

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LHI, Effect Behavioral Change, Reduce Morbidity, Reduce Mortality, Reduce Risk or Incidence of Disease or Condition, Community- & Faith-Based Organizations, Healthcare, Behavioral & Social, Clinical Practice, Secondary Prevention, Patients