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Committee hears bill to expand insurance coverage for advanced CT heart screening; insurers raise evidence and cost concerns
Summary
Senate Bill 2744 would expand mandated insurance coverage to include coronary CT angiography with advanced plaque analysis to find non‑calcified plaque; physicians and a patient testified for the bill, while insurer representatives warned the preventive evidence review and price mandates are not yet in place.
Senate Bill 2744, offered by Senator Paxton, would expand insurance coverage for newer CT‑based heart screening that visualizes non‑calcified (“soft”) plaque and uses advanced analysis, including artificial intelligence, to assess coronary artery disease. Paxton and invited medical witnesses argued the technology identifies vulnerable plaque earlier than older calcium scoring methods and could permit preventive treatment to reduce heart‑attack deaths.
Paxton said the update would modernize the 2009 Heart Attack Prevention Act (House Bill 1290) to reflect current imaging…
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