H.R.1691 - Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009

To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations. view all titles (2)

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  • Short: Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2009 as introduced.
  • Official: To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations. as introduced.

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Rosa DeLauro

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3/24/2009--Introduced.Breast Cancer Patient Protect Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan that provides medical and surgical benefits to ensure that inpat
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3/24/2009--Introduced.Breast Cancer Patient Protect Act of 2009 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan that provides medical and surgical benefits to ensure that inpatient (and in the case of a lumpectomy, outpatient) coverage and radiation therapy are provided for breast cancer treatment. Prohibits such a plan from:
(1) restricting benefits for any hospital length of stay to less than 48 hours in connection with a mastectomy or breast conserving surgery or 24 hours in connection with a lymph node dissection, insofar as the attending physician, in consultation with the patient, determines such stay to be medically necessary; or
(2) requiring that a provider obtain authorization from the plan or issuer for prescribing any such length of stay. Requires such a plan or issuer to:
(1) provide notice to each participant and beneficiary regarding the coverage required under this Act; and
(2) ensure that coverage is provided for secondary consultations. Prohibits a group health plan from taking specified actions to avoid the requirements of this Act. Applies such requirements to health insurance issuers offering coverage in the individual market. Allows a health insurance issuer that provides individual health insurance coverage to nonrenew or discontinue an individual's coverage based on the intentional concealment of material facts regarding a health condition related to the condition for which coverage is being claimed.

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Organizations Supporting H.R.1691

  • Fight Pink
  • breastcancer.org
  • National Breast Cancer Coalition
  • Susan G. Komen for the Cure
  • American Cancer Society

Organizations Opposing H.R.1691

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12/28/10
RealTime - Articles: Patient Protection Act and Breast Cancer

Side by side, presented to the 111th Congress and HR 1691, and the law of 2009 from breast cancer patients. At the same time, Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, and 玛丽兰德鲁, d as Louisiana, a similar bill, "S. 688, in the Senate. ...

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11/12/10
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