U.S. Senators Propose Federally Required Coverage of Hospital Stays for Breast Cancer

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) are sponsoring federal legislation to require insurance coverage for 48 hours of hospitalization after a mastectomy, lumpectomy or lymph node removal, according to a report by the Albany Times Union.

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While 20 states, including New York, already have this requirement, two-thirds of women who have mastectomies are still forced by their insurers to leave the hospital a few hours after surgery.

Read the Albany Times Union’s report on insurance mandates for mastectomies.

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