Bill > A2483

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This bill requires health insurance carriers (insurance companies, health, hospital, and medical service corporations, health maintenance organizations, and State and School Employees' Health Benefits Program contracts) to provide coverage for scalp cooling systems used in connection with cancer chemotherapy treatment. Pursuant to the bill, "scalp cooling system" means any device used to cool the human scalp to prevent or reduce hair loss during cancer chemotherapy treatment, so long as the device is designed and intended for repeated use and is primarily and customarily used to serve a medical purpose. In addition, the bill requires physicians administering cancer chemotherapy to a patient to inform the patient, prior to the initiation of treatment, of the availability of scalp cooling therapy as an option to help prevent or reduce hair loss and to maintain a record of the discussion in the patient's medical records.

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Tennille McCoy (D)*,  Luanne Peterpaul (D)*,  Mitchelle Drulis (D),  William Sampson (D), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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