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Mammogram and MRI Availability Act of 2011

Introduced: May 5, 2011 Introduced by: Nadler, Jerrold Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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May 20, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
May 13, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 5, 2011
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 5, 2011
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Mammogram and MRI Availability Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group or individual health plan that provides coverage for diagnostic mammography for any woman 40 years old or older to provide no less favorable coverage for annual screening mammography for such a woman, and diagnostic mammography, annual screening mammography, and annual magnetic resonance imaging for any high risk woman.

Prohibits a health plan from denying enrollment or renewal solely to avoid the requirements of this Act, providing monetary incentives to encourage women to accept less than such minimum protections, penalizing providers for providing care in accordance with this Act, or providing incentives to induce providers to provide care in a manner inconsistent with this Act.

What's happening now May 20, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

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