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Health Insurance Coverage for Breast Cancer Screenings
This bill requires health insurance plans, including state employee plans, to cover certain types of breast cancer screenings without requiring patients to pay extra costs.
What This Bill Does
- Requires a state employee health plan to cover supplemental breast examinations.
- Requires policies of accident and sickness insurance to cover diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.
- Requires health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to cover diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.
- Ensures that coverage for these screenings does not require patients to pay extra costs.
Who It Names or Affects
- People with state employee health plans
- Individuals with accident and sickness insurance policies
- Members of health maintenance organizations (HMOs)
Terms To Know
- Supplemental breast examination
- An additional type of breast exam that is not typically covered by standard health insurance plans.
- Diagnostic breast examination
- A specific test to check for signs of disease or other problems in the breasts.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not specify what types of supplemental and diagnostic breast examinations are covered.
- It is unclear how this bill will be funded or enforced.