OH HB136

Health insuring corporations must offer coverage for ovarian cancer screening examinations and laboratory tests as a supplemental health care service to subscribers.

Insurance companies providing sickness and accident insurance and public employee benefit plans must offer to provide benefits for ovarian cancer screening examinations and laboratory tests.

Ohio's Medicaid program must offer coverage for ovarian cancer screening examinations and laboratory tests as part of medical assistance.

Covered screening must follow the most recently published American Cancer Society guidelines and apply only to nonsymptomatic individuals for whom screening is recommended based on age, health, and risk factors.

Benefits must be subject to the same terms, conditions, and copayment charges as similar benefits under existing policies or plans; exemption applies to disease-specific, accident-only, and supplemental policies.