House File 543

                                  HOUSE FILE       
                                  BY  COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE,
                                      REGULATION AND LABOR

                                  (SUCCESSOR TO HF 97)


    Passed House, Date                Passed Senate,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to minimum mammography examination coverage, and
  2    making related changes.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 514C.4, subsection 1, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 1, Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    A policy or contract providing for third=party payment or
  1  4 prepayment of health or medical expenses shall provide minimum
  1  5 mammography examination coverage, including, but not limited
  1  6 to, the following classes of third=party payment provider
  1  7 contracts or policies delivered, issued for delivery,
  1  8 continued, or renewed in this state on or after July 1, 1989:.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  Section 514C.4, subsection 2, paragraphs a and c,
  1 10 Code 2003, are amended to read as follows:
  1 11    a.  One baseline mammogram for any woman who is thirty=five
  1 12 through thirty=nine years of age, or more frequent mammograms
  1 13 if recommended by the woman's physician.
  1 14    c.  A mammogram every year for any woman who is fifty years
  1 15 of age or older, or more frequently if recommended by the
  1 16 woman's physician.
  1 17    Sec. 3.  Section 514C.4, subsection 4, Code 2003, is
  1 18 amended to read as follows:
  1 19    4.  The commissioner of insurance shall adopt rules under
  1 20 chapter 17A necessary to implement this section no later than
  1 21 July 1, 1989.
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