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HB 1405 Health insurance; mandated coverage for treatment by intensity modulated radiation therapy.

Introduced by: Robert J. Wittman | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Health insurance; mandated coverage for treatment by intensity modulated radiation therapy.  Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing healthcare coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for the treatment by intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), including solid compensator-based IMRT, of tumors in situations in which extremely high precision is required in order to spare essential surrounding normal tissue, when such treatment is performed pursuant to protocol dose volume constraints approved by the institutional review board of any United States medical teaching college or the National Cancer Institute.


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