Missing Millions · 2026 estimate

Alaska is missing 30,100 lung cancer screenings.

About 1 in 7 adults ages 50 to 80 in Alaska qualifies for lung cancer screening and hasn't been screened. Find your county below.

34,800adults qualify for screening under USPSTF 2021 criteria (estimate)
13.5%were screened, 44th of 51 (American Lung Association, 2025); 18.2% nationally
1,251low-dose CT screening scans billed to Medicare fee-for-service by Alaska providers in 2024

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates 2025; CDC PLACES 2025; USPSTF 2021; American Lung Association, State of Lung Cancer 2025; CMS Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners 2024 (CPT 71271). Modeled estimates; see methodology below.

The gap, county by county

Shade shows how many adults ages 50 to 80 are missing screening. Select a county.

Anchorage Municipality

9,800

missing lung cancer screenings (estimate)

  • Qualify for screening11,400
  • Adults 50 to 80 missing screening1 in 8
  • Medicare low-dose CT scans, 20241,011
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Every Alaska county, ranked

Ranked by estimated missing screenings. Select a column to sort.
1Anchorage Municipality9,80011,4001 in 81,011
2Matanuska-Susitna Borough5,4006,2001 in 765
3Kenai Peninsula Borough3,2003,7001 in 744
4Fairbanks North Star Borough2,9003,3001 in 837
5Juneau City and Borough1,3001,5001 in 816
6Bethel Census Area1,1001,2001 in 40
7Ketchikan Gateway Borough6607601 in 712
8Nome Census Area5706601 in 40
9North Slope Borough5005801 in 60
10Kusilvak Census Area4805601 in 30
11Kodiak Island Borough4605401 in 80
12Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area4304901 in 50
13Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area3904601 in 466
14Northwest Arctic Borough3704301 in 40
15Southeast Fairbanks Census Area3604101 in 60
16Sitka City and Borough3403901 in 80
17Chugach Census Area2703201 in 80
18Dillingham Census Area2603001 in 50
19Aleutians West Census Area2202501 in 70
20Petersburg Borough1702001 in 80
21Copper River Census Area1701901 in 70
22Aleutians East Borough1601901 in 70
23Hoonah-Angoon Census Area1601901 in 60
24Wrangell City and Borough1301501 in 70
25Haines Borough1101301 in 80
26Lake and Peninsula Borough80901 in 50
27Denali Borough80901 in 70
28Skagway Municipalityfewer than 50601 in 80
29Yakutat City and Boroughfewer than 50501 in 60
30Bristol Bay Boroughfewer than 50501 in 70

Methodology

How we estimate the gap

A modeled estimate from public data only. It is not a count of patients and contains no patient information.

missing = adults 50 to 80 × county smoking rate × national eligibility factor × (1 − state screening rate)

  • Adults 50 to 80: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates, Vintage 2025
  • Smoking: CDC PLACES 2025 release (Kentucky and Pennsylvania: 2024 release)
  • Eligibility: USPSTF 2021 criteria, scaled to about 14.5 million eligible adults nationally
  • Screening rates: American Lung Association, State of Lung Cancer 2025
  • Who is missing: Census population estimates (age) and American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 (language)
  • Screening activity: CMS Medicare fee-for-service claims for low-dose CT (CPT 71271), 2024, by provider location

Estimates under 50 are shown as "fewer than 50"; others are rounded. Full methodology

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