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The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Lung screening gap across 32 counties in Ohio

190,000to360,000adults in its service area qualify for lung cancer screening and are not being screened

About 3,900 people here are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, and 64% are found at a late stage, when it is hardest to treat.

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32 counties6 acute care hospitalsService area
240,000 to 440,000adults likely qualify under USPSTF 2021 criteria (estimate)
2,300lung cancer deaths a year in these counties, 2020 to 2024
19.2%of eligible adults screened in the state, vs 18.2% nationally

Estimates from public data only; no patient information. Sources and method below.

Where the eligible adults live

The counties where most of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's Medicare inpatients live. Darker areas hold more adults who likely qualify, which is where outreach would start. Hover or tap any area for its estimate.

Adults likely eligible, per neighborhood

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Acute care hospital in this system

Counties in the service area

CountyAdults likely eligibleLung cancer deaths per 100kMedicare screens billed locally, 2024
Franklin County50,800 to 103,60032.73,426
Hamilton County35,400 to 74,20035.21,956
Montgomery County27,000 to 51,90038.5852
Delaware County7,800 to 18,50025.21,197
Licking County9,800 to 17,30040.7111
Greene County6,900 to 16,10034.033
Fairfield County7,900 to 14,90037.3None billed locally
Clark County8,600 to 13,90043.540
Richland County7,800 to 12,10040.1None billed locally
Allen County5,800 to 10,00041.2802
Muskingum County5,400 to 8,50046.858
Ross County5,300 to 7,70048.5None billed locally
Scioto County5,200 to 7,50058.1971
Hancock County3,700 to 7,40036.496
Knox County3,400 to 6,00038.2None billed locally
Pickaway County3,700 to 5,50041.7None billed locally
Darke County3,300 to 5,40034.4None billed locally
Union County2,800 to 5,10030.3None billed locally
Shelby County2,800 to 4,80039.1None billed locally
Logan County3,000 to 4,80043.9None billed locally
Auglaize County2,500 to 4,60044.4None billed locally
Crawford County2,800 to 4,40041.4None billed locally
Highland County3,000 to 4,40058.2None billed locally
Madison County2,600 to 4,30043.8None billed locally
Champaign County2,300 to 4,00039.6None billed locally
Coshocton County2,600 to 3,80045.5None billed locally
Morrow County2,400 to 3,70049.7None billed locally
Perry County2,500 to 3,70052.8None billed locally
Jackson County2,300 to 3,20055.9None billed locally
Hocking County2,200 to 3,00053.4None billed locally
Fayette County2,000 to 2,80050.6None billed locally
Pike County2,200 to 2,70055.6None billed locally

21 of the 32 counties had no Medicare lung screening reads billed from a local address in 2024. County names link to their Missing Millions page.

What closing the gap would mean

If screening in these counties rose from 19.2% to 24.2%, five points above today, about 11,800 to 22,000 more people would be screened each year.

In the National Lung Screening Trial, low-dose CT screening lowered lung cancer deaths by 20% compared with chest X-ray. Today about 64% of lung cancers here are found at a late stage.

Illustrative estimate: eligible adults (range) times the change in screening rate. Not a forecast or a guarantee.

Each year in these counties

3,900new lung cancers
2,500found at a late stage
2,300lung cancer deaths

NCI and CDC State Cancer Profiles, annual averages.

Screening at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center today

Clinicians at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center locations billed 475 low-dose CT lung screening reads to Medicare fee-for-service in 2024. Including Medicare Advantage and other insurers, we estimate about 1,100 to 3,000 screenings a year.

Most adults who qualify see a primary care clinician every year. We count 1,812 primary care clinicians, 65 pulmonologists and 14 thoracic surgeons practicing at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center locations. A 20 pack-year smoking history is often missing from structured EHR fields, so many eligible patients are never flagged.

CMS Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners 2024 (CPT 71271); clinicians matched to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center by practice address using the AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems 2023, so reads billed by outside radiology groups are not included. The all-payer estimate scales Medicare fee-for-service by the local Medicare Advantage share (55%, CMS) and, at the high end, by the share of eligible adults under 65 (65%).

6 acute care hospitals

  • The Ohio State University HospitalColumbus, OH
  • Madison HealthLondon, OH
  • Wilson Memorial HospitalSidney, OH
  • Wayne Hospital CompanyGreenville, OH
  • Highland District HospitalHillsboro, OH
  • Hocking ValleyLogan, OH

Find them, reach them, give radiologists a second opinion

LungIQ Find

Reads clinical notes, diagnoses and medications in the EHR and returns a ranked list of patients likely eligible, including those whose pack-year history is missing. Start with a CSV export refreshed every 1, 3 or 6 months, or connect through FHIR or HL7.

LungNAV Reach

An AI patient navigator that texts and calls patients in 70+ languages, answers questions about the scan, and hands each patient to your scheduling team or nurse navigators with a call summary.

LungAI Second opinion

Gives radiologists a malignancy risk score for each nodule, factoring in change since the prior scan, inside the PACS and CADe software they already use. The radiologist makes the final call.

LungAI is an investigational medical device and has not been cleared by FDA. It is not commercially available in the United States.

How we estimate the gap

Modeled estimates from public data. They are not a count of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center patients and contain no patient information.

  • Service area: CMS Hospital Service Area File 2025 (counties within 120 miles of a system hospital holding 80% of its Medicare inpatients, plus any county with at least 1%); hospitals from the AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2023.
  • Eligible adults, low estimate: Oatmeal Health Missing Millions (Census 2025 population, CDC PLACES smoking, USPSTF 2021).
  • Eligible adults, high estimate: University of Minnesota National Lung Cancer Screening Estimates (Haynes 2026), which also counts former smokers.
  • Screening rate: American Lung Association, State of Lung Cancer 2025.
  • Lung cancer cases and deaths: NCI and CDC State Cancer Profiles (incidence 2019 to 2023, deaths 2020 to 2024).
  • Screening volume: CMS Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners, 2024; CMS Medicare Advantage State/County Penetration, September 2026.

LungAI is an investigational medical device and has not been cleared by FDA. Oatmeal Health is preparing a 510(k) premarket notification. LungAI is not commercially available in the United States.

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