{"id":5840,"date":"2017-02-11T04:37:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:39:39","slug":"despite-prevention-guidelines-few-smokers-seek-ct-scans-to-check-for-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5840","title":{"rendered":"Despite Prevention Guidelines, Few Smokers Seek CT Scans To Check For Lung Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Lung cancer screening rates have barely budged in recent years, according to a new study, even though under the health law many people don\u2019t have to pay anything out-of-pocket for them because the test is recommended by a panel of prevention experts. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/despite-prevention-guidelines-few-smokers-seek-ct-scans-to-check-for-lung-cancer\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=42376315&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8CpUUImYYX2xU07uvtDdH6ejPUW8uYC2LmP6bkvUVzDFDx82MaqltjzKP91DGA0dJ-aHHI6DM_qwWZoqT6sp6zNZlw0Q&amp;_hsmi=42376315\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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