For health care providers, addressing the needs of patients in rural areas, where screening rates are lower than in urban environments (916), can require adapting to the limitations faced by these populations
Having lower insurance rates, increased distance from health care centers, and lack of public transportation options are all factors faced by women in these areas, resulting in lower breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screenings (917)
Patient encounters for this measure conducted via telehealth (e.g., encounters coded with GQ, GT, or POS 02 modifiers) are allowable
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This program at NIH has two primary initiatives: identifying children with childhood cancer and birth defects, and their families, for whole genome sequencing