Priced Out of Prevention: How America's Insurance Patchwork Is Keeping TB Screening Out of Reach
Millions of Americans at elevated risk for tuberculosis are going unscreened not because testing is unavailable, but because their insurance coverage makes it effectively inaccessible. A growing body of evidence reveals that prior authorization requirements, fragmented state-level policies, and coverage exclusions are quietly undermining the nation's tuberculosis control efforts—often with fatal consequences.