Cancer Screening After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Reply

Care Quality Metrics in Medicare During COVID-19 Pandemic

Medicare Advantage outperformed traditional Medicare on clinical quality measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; mid-pandemic, however, traditional Medicare narrowed the gap on some in-person screenings.

Cancer Screening After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Reply

In Reply We thank Dr Wu and colleagues for their comments. Our study’s aim was to assess ongoing national trends in cancer screening relative to previously documented declines during the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily to inform return to screening efforts. Our study was not intended to measure the effects of policy or recommendation changes, such as the 2021 USPSTF recommendation update lowering CRC screening age from 50 years to 45 years. To acco…