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Medicare has expanded its coverage for mammograms as of January 1, 1998. Medicare will now pay for an annual screening mammogram for any woman over 39 years of age covered by Medicare without any deductible being required. Prior to this change, many women covered by Medicare were only covered for screening mammography once every two years. Click Here here to see PL 105-33 section 4101, amending 42 U.S.C. section 1395m, which expanded Medicare mammography coverage. (To avoid having to browse down the entire text of this law, use the "find" feature of your browser and search on "4101" until you come to the provision on mammography. This may not work in all browsers. In Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape 3.x, the "find" feature is on the "edit" menu.)
In order to perform mammography, a facility must be certified by the Food and Drug Administration. An FDA certified facility must have a certificate from the FDA showing that it has been certified on display so check for it. The certificate will show the time period for which the facility has been approved. You can obtain information about certification on the Food and Drug Administration website. You can also obtain a list of mammography facilities certified by the Food and Drug Administration on the website.
The federal Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000 gives states the option to provide full Medicaid benefits to certain uninsured women who are identified through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program to be in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer. You can obtain more information about the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program including the Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000 from the website of the National Centers For Disease Control National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. National Cancer Institute fact sheet on mammograms. The National Women's Health Information Center. New York State Healthy Women Partnerships for Free and Low Cost Mammograms.
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