Screening Costs for High-Risk Women

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They were told to get extra breast cancer screenings. Then they got stuck with the bill.

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Millions of American women are at high risk for breast cancer but their insurance does not cover the costs of follow-on screenings needed to detect the disease.

Breast cancer can be hidden in mammograms for many women, so doctors recommend additional screenings, which include ultrasounds, MRIs and tomosynthesis, a kind of 3D mammogram.

Last year , doctors say Medicare stopped reimbursing for the same breast cancer ultrasound screenings it had reimbursed for in 2023 .

Legislators in Connecticut , Florida , Indiana , Hawaii , South Carolina and Virginia have introduced bills that would require insurers to cover additional screenings.

Iowa lawmakers recently passed legislation requiring private health insurers to pay for additional breast cancer screenings.

The American Cancer Society says it hopes to see similar legislation passed soon in Nebraska , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island and Wisconsin .

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