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This bill aims to ensure equity and early detection in breast cancer healthcare coverage. It requires various health insurance plans, including those offered by the state's Group Insurance Commission, Medicaid, and private insurers, to provide coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer on the same basis as screening mammograms. The bill defines "diagnostic examinations for breast cancer" as medically necessary evaluations of abnormalities detected through screening or other means, including diagnostic mammography, breast MRI, or breast ultrasound. The bill also prohibits increasing patient cost-sharing for these diagnostic examinations to achieve compliance. The provisions of the bill will take effect one year after the effective date of the act.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H1043