A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies and lymph node dissections performed for the treatment of breast cancer
Contributors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Hospital utilization; Length of stay; Law and legislation; Health insurance; Breast; Cancer; Insurance; Treatment; Mastectomy; Lymph nodes; Dissection
Other titles: Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 1999.; 106th Congress, 1st Session, S. 681 in the Senate of the United States.; To amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies and lymph node dissections performed for the treatment of breast cancer.
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Introduced Mar. 23, 1999; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.