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HB 1778 Mammography; provider must notify patient about dense breast tissue.
Introduced by: Eileen Filler-Corn | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:
Mammography results; information about dense breast tissue. Clarifies the conditions under which a mammography services provider must notify a patient of dense breast tissue. The bill provides that such notice must be sent to patients who are determined by the interpreting physician to have heterogeneously dense or extremely dense tissue, as defined in nationally recognized guidelines or systems for breast imagining reporting of mammography screening, including the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System and any equivalent new terms, and modifies the existing language of the notice.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Mammography results; information about dense breast tissue. Clarifies the conditions under which a mammography services provider must notify a patient of dense breast tissue and adds language to the notice that must be sent to patients under the existing law.