MSSNY Joins Dozens of Other Groups in Urging Governor to Sign into Law Lung Cancer Screening Legislation
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MSSNY has joined together with specialty societies, cancer centers, and numerous other healthcare advocacy groups to urge Governor Hochul to sign into law A1195-A/S2000-A, legislation which would eliminate patient cost sharing for recommended lung cancer screening, and follow-up scans, and diagnostic tests for asymptomatic individuals by all payers in New York.
This group letter highlights concerns that, after an individual has had a lung cancer screening CT scan that results in a suspicious finding, not all insurers are covering the needed supplemental scans or testing necessary to diagnose lung cancer without imposing patient cost-sharing. This can mean the difference between a patient being able to get the needed follow up testing or not, all while there is a strong likelihood that cancer is growing in their lungs. If signed into law, this legislation would address this concern.
