HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2075        FILED ON: 1/20/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2051

 

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 adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to diagnostic screening for prostate cancer..

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Robert F. Fennell

10th Essex

1/20/2011

Christine E. Canavan

10th Plymouth

2/3/2011

Martha M. Walz

8th Suffolk

2/3/2011

James J. O'Day

14th Worcester

2/4/2011

Louis L. Kafka

8th Norfolk

2/4/2011

Kevin G. Honan

17th Suffolk

2/4/2011

Brian M. Ashe

2nd Hampden

2/4/2011

Frank I. Smizik

15th Norfolk

2/3/2011

Sal N. DiDomenico

Middlesex and Suffolk

2/3/2011

Cory Atkins

14th Middlesex

2/3/2011

Carlo Basile

1st Suffolk

2/3/2011

Walter F. Timilty

7th Norfolk

2/3/2011


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2075        FILED ON: 1/20/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2051

By Mr. Fennell of Lynn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2051) of Robert F. Fennell and others that health insurance providers be required to include coverage for diagnostic screening for prostate cancer.  Financial Services.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 898 OF 2009-2010.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

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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.