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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5367 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5367

To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require group 
health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual 
     health insurance coverage to provide benefits for lung cancer 
   screenings for certain individuals without the imposition of cost 
                                sharing.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 21, 2024

   Ms. Smith introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL

 
To amend title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to require group 
health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual 
     health insurance coverage to provide benefits for lung cancer 
   screenings for certain individuals without the imposition of cost 
                                sharing.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Katherine's Lung Cancer Early 
Detection and Survival Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Lung cancer is the number 1 killer of all cancers.
            (2) Lung cancer causes more deaths than prostate cancer, 
        breast cancer, and colorectal cancer combined.
            (3) The reason for the extremely low 5-year survival rate 
        in lung cancer patients is the difficulty to diagnosis it at 
        early stages, as patients have no symptoms at early stages.
            (4) For all stages of lung cancer, the overall 5-year 
        survival rate is 19 percent, while such rate is 98 percent for 
        prostate cancer (for all stages) and 90 percent for breast 
        cancer (for all stages).
            (5) Early detection of lung cancer through screening could 
        dramatically increase survival rates for patients.
            (6) Current law mandates that private health insurance 
        cover, without any cost sharing requirements, screening for 
        breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colorectal cancer at much 
        earlier ages than for lung cancer, regardless of preexisting 
        conditions of the individual to be screened.
            (7) Screening without cost sharing starts at age 40 for 
        breast cancer but for lung cancer does not start until age 55, 
        and then and only for those with a history of smoking thirty or 
        more packs of cigarettes per year.
            (8) This Act would save lives and money through early 
        detection of lung cancer by starting screening without cost 
        sharing at age 40.

SEC. 3. REQUIRING COVERAGE OF LUNG CANCER SCREENINGS FOR CERTAIN 
              INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT COST SHARING.

    (a) In General.--Section 2713(a) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 300gg-13(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting a semicolon;
            (3) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and'';
            (4) by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following:
            ``(5) with respect to individuals 40 years of age or older, 
        lung cancer screenings, regardless of the smoking history (if 
        any) of such an individual.''; and
            (5) by adding at the end of the undesignated matter at the 
        end the following: ``For the purposes of this Act, and for the 
        purposes of any other provision of law, the current 
        recommendations of the United States Preventive Service Task 
        Force regarding breast cancer screening, mammography, and 
        prevention shall be considered the most current other than 
        those issued in or around November 2009.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
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