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.
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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