CT HB05208

Individual and group health insurance policies must cover baseline mammograms for women ages 35-39 and annual mammograms for women age 40 and older, with breast tomosynthesis available as an option.

Insurance policies must provide comprehensive ultrasound screening of breasts if a mammogram shows dense breast tissue or if a woman is at increased risk for breast cancer based on family history, prior cancer, genetic testing, or physician determination.

Insurance policies must provide magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of breasts in accordance with American Cancer Society guidelines.

Copayments for ultrasound screening cannot exceed $20, and all other policy provisions apply to these breast imaging benefits.

Mammography reports must include breast density information based on the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System and a notice explaining supplementary screening options for patients with dense breast tissue, effective January 1, 2019.