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U.S. Government Approves Six State Plans To Insure Women With Breast Or Cervical Cancer.
2001 JUN 21 - (NewsRx Network) -- U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Tommy G. Thompson has approved six new states' applications for a new federal program that allows them to offer Medicaid benefits to uninsured women who are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer through a federal screening program.
Utah, Idaho, South Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, and Montana are the most recent states to take advantage of the federal Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act (BCCPT) that was signed into law in October 2000. Rhode Island, New Hampshire, West Virginia, and Maryland were the first four states to take advantage of this new program.
The law extends the full Medicaid benefit package to women who were screened and found to need treatment through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. To qualify for the new pr gram, women must be under age 65, not eligible for Medicaid and without creditable health car coverage.
Participation in the BCCPT is optional for states. However, states that do offer the benefit will ...
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