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Key Findings:

Patients are 50% more likely to get breast cancer screening and twice as likely to get colorectal cancer screening once on Medicare.
Patients are also more likely to be newly diagnosed with lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, depression, and COPD in the year in which they have their first Medicare encounter.

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