Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 2007
Latest action · Sep 19, 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.
- IntroducedAug 3, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cancer Screening Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan to provide coverage for certain types of cancer screening. Includes under such coverage mammograms, clinical breast examinations, pap tests and pelvic examinations, colorectal screening procedures, and prostate screening tests, at specified intervals and through specified procedures for certain age groups in appropriate genders.
Prohibits related eligibility discrimination, monetary incentives to individuals, and penalties or incentives to providers.
Requires such plans and issuers to provide certain disclosures to participants and beneficiaries, including regarding covered benefits, cost sharing, and participating providers.
Applies the requirements of this Act to coverage offered in the individual market and under federal employees health benefits plan.
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to modify coverage requirements under this Act to incorporate new scientific and technological advances, practice pattern changes, or other updated medical practices regarding cancer screening.
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Aug 3, 2007 to Sep 24, 2008, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-OH | Deborah Pryce | Original | Aug 3, 2007 |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Original | Aug 3, 2007 |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Sep 25, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Sep 27, 2007 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Oct 3, 2007 | |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Dec 6, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Dec 11, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Sep 24, 2008 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 19, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- Aug 14, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Aug 3, 2007Introduced in House
- Aug 3, 2007Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Ways and Means, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
- Aug 3, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Aug 3, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1731)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Breast cancer
- Cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Coinsurance
- Colon cancer
- Commerce
- Consumer education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Employee health benefits
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Genetics
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Health insurance
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Mammography
- Medical screening
- Medical tests
- Ovarian cancer
- Patients' rights
- Physical examinations
- Prostate cancer
- Rebates
- Women
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Aug 3, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.