Bill Text: MA H898 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced
Bill Title: That health insurance providers be required to include coverage for diagnostic screening for prostate cancer
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-20 - Senate concurred [H898 Detail]
Download: Massachusetts-2009-H898-Introduced.html
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Robert F. Fennell
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To the
Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts in General
��������������� Court assembled:
��������������� The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to diagnostic screening for prostate cancer. .
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PETITION OF:
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Name: |
District/Address: |
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Robert F. Fennell |
10th Essex |
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Anthony W. Petruccelli |
First Suffolk and Middlesex |
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Martha M. Walz |
8th Suffolk |
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Stephen M. Brewer |
Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin |
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Christine E. Canavan |
10th Plymouth |
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James B. Eldridge |
Middlesex and Worcester |
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Marc R. Pacheco |
First Plymouth and Bristol |
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Cleon H. Turner |
1st Barnstable |
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Kay Khan |
11th Middlesex |
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James Dwyer |
30th Middlesex |
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Thomas M. Stanley |
9th Middlesex |
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Jennifer M. Callahan |
18th Worcester |
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Thomas M. McGee |
Third Essex and Middlesex |
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Anthony D. Galluccio |
Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex |
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Richard J. Ross |
9th Norfolk |
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Bruce E. Tarr |
First Essex and Middlesex |
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Paul McMurtry |
11th Norfolk |
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Linda Dean Campbell |
15th Essex |
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John F. Quinn |
9th Bristol |
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Joseph R. Driscoll, Jr. |
5th Norfolk |
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Susan C. Fargo |
Third Middlesex |
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Lori Ehrlich |
8th Essex |
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Michael F. Rush |
10th Suffolk |
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS
SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 946 OF 2007-2008.]
The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine
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An Act relative to diagnostic screening for prostate cancer. .
��������������� Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
����������� SECTION 1.� Notwithstanding any general or special
law to the contrary,� every contract which provides coverage for hospital,
surgical or medical care shall provide the following coverage for diagnostic
screening for prostatic cancer:
(i) upon the recommendation of a physician, medically recognized diagnostic
testing including, but not limited to, a digital rectal examination,
transrectal ultrasonography and prostate-specific antigen test at any age for
covered persons having a prior history of prostate cancer; and (ii) an annual
medically recognized diagnostic examination including, but not limited to, a
digital rectal examination, trans-rectal ultrasonography and a
prostate-specific antigen test for all men aged forty and over.
