US Congress Senate Bill 1936 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on June 20 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-06-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Makes a series of changes relating to health insurance coverage of screening mammography. Specifically, the bill requires that any provision of law referring to current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) with respect to breast cancer screening mammography be administered as if (1) the provision referred to USPSTF recommendations last issued before 2009; and (2) those recommendations applied to any screening mammography modality, including any digital modality of such a procedure. This requirement shall also apply to the Veterans Health Administration's policy on mammography screening for veterans. In addition, the bill preserves Medicare coverage for screening mammography, without a requirement for coinsurance, and expands the definition of screening mammography to include any digital modality of such a procedure. Further, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may not decrease the frequency with which screening mammography may be paid by Medicare for a woman over 39 years of age. In 2009, the USPSTF updated its guidelines to recommend against routine screening mammography for women between 40 to 49 years of age and to recommend biennial, instead of annual, screening mammography for most women between 50 to 74 years of age. In 2015, through the appropriations process, a three-year moratorium was placed on implementing the guidelines; the moratorium was subsequently renewed until January 1, 2020.

PALS Act Protecting Access to Lifesaving Screenings Act of 2019

Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith [R-MS]	Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Martha McSally [R-AZ]
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. Deb Fischer [R-NE]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-06-20	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB2777 (Same As) 2019-06-11 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1936/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s1936/BILLS-116s1936is.pdf