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Sponsor urges insurers to discuss PET-scan coverage after family cancer experience
Summary
Senator Williamson Williams presented SB509 (LC 521015) to require expanded post-mastectomy imaging (including PET scans) and said he expects insurers at the table; members questioned Medicaid inclusion, medical-necessity language and comparative state action.
Senator Williamson Williams introduced SB509 (LC 521015), a bill prompted by his family’s experience with breast cancer that would require health benefit policies to cover annual chest imaging tests and additional medically necessary chest imaging (including PET scans) to monitor for recurrence after mastectomy.
Williams spoke from personal experience, recounting his wife’s diagnosis, surgery and…
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