Alabama Academy of Family Physicians
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Ed Oliver, HB 45 would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover any noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test assigned a grade A or B under the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. This bill would also require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover a colonoscopy based on a positive test result.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening. So yeah, we’re very focused on that.
GeriPal
APRIL 20, 2023
They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period. So the other part of that thing I would say is all of those things are true about the difference in rates between a community. Eric: Oh, wow. Check your Eurocentric, middle class thinking.
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