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Tex. Ins. Code § 1356.005

COVERAGE REQUIRED

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff

(a) A health benefit plan that provides coverage to a female who is 35 years of age or older must include coverage for an annual screening by all forms of low-dose mammography for the presence of occult breast cancer.

(a-1) A health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging that is no less favorable than the coverage for a screening mammogram.

(b) Coverage required by this section:

(1) may not be less favorable than coverage for other radiological examinations under the plan; and

(2) must be subject to the same dollar limits, deductibles, and coinsurance factors as coverage for other radiological examinations under the plan.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.