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November 2002, Vol 92, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1707
© 2002 American Public Health Association

LETTER

RECOGNITION OF OSTEOPOROSIS SINCE 1997

Melissa Simon, RN, ADN

M. Simon is with Georgia Medicare Part B, Savannah, Ga.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Melissa Simon, RN, ADN (e-mail: msimon@bcbsal.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

It was interesting to review the data from Gehlbach, Fournier, and Bigelow in their article "Recognition of Osteoporosis by Primary Care Physicians."1 The authors reviewed osteoporosis diagnosis data for a subsample of white women aged 60 years and older using National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys from 1993 through 1997. They found that "[f]ewer than 2% of the women received diagnoses of osteoporosis or vertebral fracture, although expected prevalence is 20% to 30%."1

Since the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA97), Title IV, Section 4106, Medicare Part B provides for coverage of medically necessary bone mass measurements.2 Osteoporosis . . . [Full Text]






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