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House floor advances insurer coverage requirement for scalp-cooling during chemotherapy
Summary
Delegates advanced a committee-backed bill directing insurers to cover scalp-cooling systems for chemotherapy patients after floor members questioned scope and fiscal impacts; sponsor cited a Maryland Health Care Commission 2025 cost analysis and committee vote (reported 17–2).
A bill requiring health insurers to cover scalp-cooling systems for patients undergoing tumor-related chemotherapy moved forward on the Maryland House floor after floor questioning on Tuesday.
The bill’s floor representative described the technology as a treatment “provided to a chemotherapy patient, primarily, tumor related chemotherapy, breast cancer,” that cools the scalp…
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