Bill Summary for S 584 (2023-2024)

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Apr 5 2023

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
Senate Bill 584 (Public) Filed Tuesday, April 4, 2023
AN ACT TO PROVIDE HEALTH COVERAGE PARITY FOR BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING AND TO REQUIRE COVERAGE FOR MAMMOGRAMS AND ULTRASOUNDS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DENSE BREAST TISSUE.
Intro. by Batch, Chaudhuri, Bode.

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Amends and repeals various sections to require health coverage for breast cancer diagnostic imaging. Recodifies GS 58-51-57 (Coverage for mammograms and cervical cancer screening) as GS 58-3-271, and repeals GS 58-65-92 and GS 58-67-76, two other statutes regarding coverage for mammograms and cervical cancer screenings. Amends the text of GS 58-51-57, as recodified in GS 58-3-271, to require all health plans in the state to cover examinations/screenings for cervical cancer and low-dose screening mammography and breast ultrasound as recommended by a physician. Also amends the text to ensure cost-sharing requirements for supplemental breast cancer examinations are no less favorable than requirements applicable to screening examinations for breast cancer. Makes corresponding changes throughout the section and provides relevant definitions. Amends GS 135-48.51 to make the coverage included in the recodified GS 58-3-271 applicable to the State Health Plan. These changes are effective and applicable to insurance contracts issued, renewed or amended on or after October 1, 2023. 

Appropriates $1.5 million for 2023-24 to the Community Colleges System Office from the General Fund to develop a program for recruitment and retention of certified mammography technologists in rural and medically underserved areas of the state. The appropriation is effective July 1, 2023.