The Department of Veterans Affairs leads the nation in breast cancer screening rates and has outperformed non-VA health care systems in breast cancer screenings for more than 15 years, the department says.
Almost all, 87 percent, of eligible women have received mammograms in the VA health care system in fiscal year 2010.
By comparison, in 2010, the private sector screened 71 percent of eligible women, Medicare screened 69 percent and Medicaid screened 51 percent, according to Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, a tool used by more than 90 percent of U.S. health plans to measure performance on dimensions of care and service.
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