Each individual and group health maintenance organization contract delivered or issued for delivery in this state shall provide coverage for low-dose screening mammograms for determining the presence of breast cancer. Such coverage shall make available one baseline mammogram to persons age thirty-five through thirty-nine, one mammogram biennially to persons age forty through forty-nine and one mammogram annually to persons age fifty and over. After July 1, 1992, coverage shall be available only for screening mammograms obtained on equipment designed specifically to perform low-dose mammography in imaging facilities that have met American college of radiology accreditation standards for mammography. History: Laws 1990, ch. 5, § 1; 1978 Comp., § 59A-46-35, recompiled as § 59A-46-41 by Laws 1993, ch. 266, § 31; 2023, ch. 12, § 7. The 2023 amendment, effective June 16, 2023, removed a provision stating that coverage for mammograms may be subject to deductibles and coinsurance; and deleted former Subsection B, which provided that coverage for mammograms may be subject to deductibles and coinsurance. Applicability. — Laws 2023, ch. 12, § 8 provided that Laws 2023, ch. 12 apply to health insurance policies, health care plans, certificates of health insurance and health maintenance organization contracts that are delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2024.
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