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Clinical and laboratory assessment is needed to establish a diagnosis of urinary tract infectionThere are several approaches to diagnosing urinary tract infection in older adults, with certain common elements in diagnostic criteria. The accepted criteria are two clinical symptoms (from the following list: temperature > 38°C, urinary urgency or frequency, acute dysuria, hypogastric pain, costovertebral angle tenderness) and laboratory findings of bacteriuria (> 100 000 colony-forming units/mL) or pyuria (> 10 leukocytes/high-power field).
By 2017, there was no significant difference between private or government insurance and self-pay.Geographic disparities in GAS access diminished during the study period. Early predominance of cases in the West may be associated with state policies favorable toward GAS coverage. California was the first state to broadly expand Medicaid coverage for GAC in 2013 and had policies against discrimination in private insurance coverage. 1,4 During the study period, Medicaid coverage for GAS was introduced in 12 states and state private insurance laws became more inclusive. 1,3,5 This study is limited by reliance on ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes, which may not represent the full range of GAS. GAS is often the final step in transition with the most stringent insurance preauthorization requirements, limiting generalizability of our results to other forms of GAC.Despite recent improvements, access to GAS remains limited. Less than half of state Medicaid programs provide for GAC, and in 2020, only 18% of the 3 largest private health plans by state had policies favorable for facial feminization surgeries. 1,6
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