Bill Text: MS SB2550 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Health benefit plans; certain plans must provide coverage for tests for early detection of cardiovascular disease.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2014-02-04 - Died In Committee [SB2550 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2014-SB2550-Introduced.html

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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2014 Regular Session

To: Insurance

By: Senator(s) Longwitz

Senate Bill 2550

AN ACT TO REQUIRE CERTAIN HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS TO PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR SCREENING TESTS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  The following shall be codified within Chapter 9, Title 83, Mississippi Code of 1972:

     83-9-__.  (1)  A health benefit plan that provides coverage for screening medical procedures must provide the minimum coverage required by this section to each covered individual:

          (a)  Who is:

               (i)  A male older than forty-five (45) years of age and younger than seventy-six (76) years of age; or

               (ii)  A female older than fifty-five (55) years of age and younger than seventy-six (76) years of age; and

          (b)  Who:

               (i)  Is diabetic; or

               (ii)  Has a risk of developing coronary heart disease, based on a score derived using the Framingham Heart Study coronary prediction algorithm, that is intermediate or higher.

     (2)  The minimum coverage required to be provided under this section is coverage of up to Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for one (1) of the following noninvasive screening tests for atherosclerosis and abnormal artery structure and function every five (5) years:

          (a)  Computed tomography (CT) scanning measuring coronary artery calcification; or

          (b)  Ultrasonography measuring carotid intima-media thickness and plaque.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2014.