MN SR99

Designates May 2024 as Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month in Minnesota.

Cites that 54 million Americans have osteoporosis or low bone mass, with one in two women and up to one in four men age 50 and older expected to break a bone due to osteoporosis.

Notes that Medicare beneficiaries suffered 2.1 million osteoporotic fractures annually, with osteoporosis-related fractures causing more hospitalizations than heart attacks, strokes, or breast cancer.

Highlights that osteoporosis costs Medicare beneficiaries $57 billion annually as of 2018 and is projected to exceed $95 billion by 2040 without reforms.

Directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit an enrolled copy of the resolution to the Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation.