Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 2007
Latest action · Sep 11, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 28, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Osteoporosis Early Detection and Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan to include coverage for bone mass measurement for individuals who: (1) are at a clinical risk for osteoporosis, including estrogen-deficient women; (2) have vertebral abnormalities; (3) are receiving chemotherapy or long-term gluococorticoid (steroid) therapy; (4) have primary hyperparathyroidism, hyperthyroidism, or excess thyroid replacement; or (5) are being monitored to assess the response to or efficacy of approved osteoporosis drug therapy.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards regulating the frequency with which individuals are eligible to be provided this benefit. Prohibits specified actions by health care plans to discourage the use of this benefit.
Applies these requirements to coverage offered in the individual market.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jun 28, 2007.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-WV | Shelley Moore Capito | Original | Jun 28, 2007 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 11, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- Jun 28, 2007Introduced in House
- Jun 28, 2007Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Jun 28, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jun 28, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1439)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Bone diseases
- Chemotherapy
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Coinsurance
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Drug therapy
- Employee health benefits
- Estrogen
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Freedom of speech
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Health insurance
- Imaging systems in medicine
- Insurance companies
- Labor and Employment
- Medical tests
- Osteoporosis
- Patients' rights
- Physician-patient privilege
- Preventive medicine
- Radioisotopes in medicine
- Science, Technology, Communications
- State laws
- Steroids
- Thyroid diseases
- Women
- Women's health
- X-rays
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 28, 2007Introduced in House
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