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H. B. 2730


(By Delegates R. M. Thompson, Staton, Mezzatesta,

Leach, Perdue, Compton and Douglas)

[Introduced March 5, 2001 ; referred to the

Committee on Banking and Insurance then Finance.]




A BILL to amend article fifteen, chapter thirty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section four-g, relating to the minimum hospital care to be provided breast cancer patients for mastectomy procedures by insurers.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article fifteen, chapter thirty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section four-g, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 15. ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INSURANCE.

§33-15-4g. Hospital benefit for mastectomy procedures.

Each insurer offering individual or group accident and
sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis; each corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts; and each health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services shall provide coverage providing a minimum stay in the hospital of not less than forty-eight hours for a patient following a radical or modified radical mastectomy and not less than twenty-four hours of inpatient care following a total mastectomy or partial mastectomy with lymph node dissection for the treatment for breast cancer. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the provision of inpatient coverage where the attending physician in consultation with the patient determines that a shorter period of hospital stay is appropriate. This provision shall be included under any policy, contract or plan delivered, issued for delivery or renewed on or after the first day of July, two thousand one.
The provisions of this section do not apply to short-term travel, accident only, limited or specified disease policies, policies or contracts designed for issuance to persons eligible for coverage under Medicare or any other similar coverage under state or federal governmental plans, or to short-term nonrenewable
policies of not more than six months' duration.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require insurance coverage for a reasonable period of inpatient care following mastectomy surgery.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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