Increasing Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act
House Bill Would Require Medicare, Medicaid to Cover Lung Cancer Screening With No Prior Approval
Stalled
No legislative action in over 90 days.
Legislative Progress
Key Points
- Requires Medicaid to cover a yearly lung cancer screening for people who meet national screening guidelines, and says it can’t be blocked by prior approval.
- Makes that Medicaid lung cancer screening free to the patient (no cost sharing), including for people in Medicaid managed care plans.
- Expands Medicaid tobacco-quit help (counseling and quit-smoking medicines) from only pregnant people to all Medicaid enrollees, and bans prior approval for these services.
- Requires Medicare and private health plans to cover yearly lung cancer screening without prior approval when someone meets the screening guidelines.
- Directs Health and Human Services to run a public education campaign on who should get screened, funded at $10 million each year from 2026–2030, and orders a federal report on who is being missed by current screening rules.
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Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Introduced in House
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U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor has introduced the Increasing Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act. Moffitt Cancer Center officials say screenings could save many lives, noting lung cancer accounts for 25% of all cancer deaths each year, and advocate for wider accessibility for these screenings.
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Increasing Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act
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