Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for diagnostic breast examinations and for supplemental breast screening examinations for an individual who has dense breast tissue in Wisconsin.

Highlights:

• Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for diagnostic breast examinations (Sec. 15). 

• Requires health insurance policies to provide supplemental breast screening examinations for an individual who is at increased risk of breast cancer (Sec. 15). 

• Specifies that coverage is required despite whether the woman shows any signs of breast cancer (Sec. 16). 

• Prohibits a health insurance policy or a self-insured health plan from imposing on a covered individual a cost-sharing amount for a supplemental breast screening examination or diagnostic breast examination (Sec. 17). 

• Specifies that this bill does not change or eliminate the current coverage requirements for mammograms, but rather explicitly includes preferred provider plans in the current law and the bill’s requirements (Sec. 5).

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