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HB 2949 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 health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for the treatment by intensity modulated radiation therapy of tumors 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. The requirement for coverage applies only if the patient resides within a medically underserved area of the Commonwealth.


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