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The National Breast Cancer Foundation partners “with medical facilities across the country to provide free mammograms and diagnostic breast care services to underserved women.”
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1. Your Doctor
Medicare and Medicaid also cover the cost of mammograms.
To qualify for this screening, you should be between the ages of 40 and 64, have no insurance or insurance that fails to cover screening exams, and live at or below 250% of the federal poverty level.
2. The National Breast Cancer Foundation
This breast cancer organization has affiliates in 120 American cities.
To learn more about mammograms — including how they work and how to prepare — check out this PDF from the Komen Foundation.
3. The Susan G. Komen Foundation
According to its website, its affiliate network “is the nation’s largest private funder of community-based breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment programs.”
Women today have a bounty of ways to get free and low-cost mammograms. Here are six options.
Some YWCA chapters provide breast cancer screening and education to women who have no insurance or who are underinsured.
4. The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program
If you’re 50 or older, the Affordable Care Act requires your insurer to cover screening mammograms every two years with no co-payment. More information is available here.
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5. The YWCA
The CDC’s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program “provides breast and cervical cancer screenings and diagnostic services to low-income, uninsured and underinsured women across the United States.”
You can find out more information about your state or territory here.
6. Your Local Imaging Center
Though every woman should do breast self-exams each month, women over 40 should also consider getting a mammogram — an X-ray that examines breast tissue — every one to two years. (Here are specific guidelines.)
Contact your local YWCA to see if it offers affordable mammograms.
If you’re younger than 40 but have risk factors for breast cancer, you might need a mammogram, too; ask for your doctor’s recommendation.
Susan Shain is a contributor to The Penny Hoarder. Former SEO analyst Jacquelyn Pica assisted with research.
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