Each individual and group health maintenance organization contract delivered or issued for delivery in this state shall provide coverage for low-dose screening mammograms for determining the presence of breast cancer. Such coverage shall make available one baseline mammogram to persons age thirty-five through thirty-nine, one mammogram biennially to persons age forty through forty-nine and one mammogram annually to persons age fifty and over. After July 1, 1992, coverage shall be available only for screening mammograms obtained on equipment designed specifically to perform low-dose mammography in imaging facilities that have met American college of radiology accreditation standards for mammography.
§ 59A-46-41 NMSA 1978
Coverage for mammograms
Known as the Health Maintenance Organization Law
The act spans §§ 59–59 (92 sections).
Laws 1990, ch. 5, § 1; 1978 Comp., § 59A-46-35, recompiled as § 59A-46-41 by Laws 1993, ch. 266, § 31; 2023, ch. 12, § 7.
Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.