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SB 8 - Repeals All Patient's Share Costs Associated with Mammograms and Screenings for Breast and Ovarian Cancers - Pennsylvania Key Vote

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Title: Repeals All Patient's Share Costs Associated with Mammograms and Screenings for Breast and Ovarian Cancers

Signed by Governor Josh Shapiro


Title: Repeals All Patient's Share Costs Associated with Mammograms and Screenings for Breast and Ovarian Cancers

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Title: Repeals All Patient's Share Costs Associated with Mammograms and Screenings for Breast and Ovarian Cancers

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that repeals all patient's share costs associated with mammograms and screening for breast and ovarian cancers.

Highlights:

  • Requires that health-insurance policy offered, issued, or renewed under the commonwealth provide coverage for BRCA-related genetic counseling and genetic testing (Sec. 2). 

  • Specifies that the minimum amount of coverage required is all cost associated with genetic counseling, and if indicated to be a higher risk for breast or ovarian cancer a genetic laboratory test of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes (Sec. 2). 

 

 

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Title: Repeals All Patient's Share Costs Associated with Mammograms and Screenings for Breast and Ovarian Cancers

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