Annual Mammogram and Prostate Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 1998
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Jul 24, 1998)
Annual Mammogram and Prostate Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 1998 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require a group health plan, and a health insurance issuer offering group coverage, to provide coverage for annual screening mammograms for participants and beneficiaries 40 years old and older and annual prostate cancer screening testing for male participants and beneficiaries 50 years old and older. Prohibits related eligibility discrimination, monetary incentives to individuals, and penalties or incentives to providers.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan to provide coverage for annual screening mammograms for participants and beneficiaries 40 years old and older and annual prostate cancer screening testing for male participants and beneficiaries 50 years old and older.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to apply the requirements of this Act to coverage offered in the individual market.
Amends the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 to mandate coordination of regulations, rulings, and interpretations between the Secretaries of the Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor relating to matters over which two or more of the Secretaries have responsibility.
What just happenedAug 17, 1998
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseJul 24, 1998
- Aug 17, 1998CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Health and Environment Subcommittee - Jul 30, 1998CommitteeH11000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Jul 24, 1998IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee - Jul 24, 1998IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Education and Workforce Committee - Jul 24, 1998IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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.
- Jul 24, 1998IntroReferralH11100
Referred to House Commerce
Energy and Commerce Committee - Jul 24, 1998IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Jul 24, 1998IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House