Tex. Ins. Code § 1356.005 · Chapter 1356. MAMMOGRAPHY AND OTHER BREAST IMAGING
COVERAGE REQUIRED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A health benefit plan that provides coverage to a female who is 35 years of age or older must include coverage for an annual screening by all forms of low-dose mammography for the presence of occult breast cancer.
(a-1) A health benefit plan that provides coverage for a screening mammogram must provide coverage for diagnostic imaging that is no less favorable than the coverage for a screening mammogram.
(b) Coverage required by this section:
(1) may not be less favorable than coverage for other radiological examinations under the plan; and
(2) must be subject to the same dollar limits, deductibles, and coinsurance factors as coverage for other radiological examinations under the plan.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 816 (H.B. 1036), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2017.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1356 (H.B. 170), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2019.
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 867 (S.B. 1065), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2021.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1356.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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