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 02/11/25 - Introduced

 AB-536 Health care coverage: colorectal cancer screening.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/24/2025 09:00 PM

AB536:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 536

Introduced by Assembly Member Patterson

February 11, 2025

An act to amend Section 1367.668 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 10123.207 of the Insurance Code, relating to health care coverage. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 536, as amended, Patterson.
 Health care coverage: colorectal cancer screening.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally requires a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, to provide coverage without cost sharing for a colorectal cancer screening test assigned either a grade of A or a grade of B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force and for a required colonoscopy for a positive result on a test with those grades. 

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. 

This bill would additionally require that coverage if the screening test is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and either meets requirements for coverage established by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as specified, or is included in the most recently published guidelines from the American Cancer Society.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NOYES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 1367.668 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

1367.668.

 (a) Every health care service plan contract, except a specialized health care service plan contract, that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, shall provide coverage without cost sharing for a colorectal cancer screening test assigned either a grade of A or a grade of B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force. The that meets any of the following conditions:

(1) Approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration
 (FDA) and meets the requirements for coverage established by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services National Coverage Determination 210.3.

(2) Approved by the FDA and included in the most recently published guidelines from the American Cancer Society.

(3) Assigned either a grade of A or a grade of B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.

(b) The required colonoscopy for a positive result on a test or procedure, other than a colonoscopy, that is a colorectal cancer screening examination or laboratory test identified assigned either a grade of A or a grade of B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force
 that meets any of the conditions described in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (a) shall also be provided without cost sharing.

(b)

(c) This section does not preclude a health care service plan that has coverage for out-of-network benefits from imposing cost-sharing requirements for the items or services described in this section that are delivered by an out-of-network provider.

SEC. 2.

 Section 10123.207 of the Insurance Code is amended to read:

10123.207.

 (a) Every health insurance policy, except a specialized health insurance policy, that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, shall provide coverage without cost sharing for a colorectal cancer screening test assigned either a grade of A or a grade of B by the United States Preventive Services Task Force. The that meets any of the following conditions:

(1) Approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
 and meets the requirements for coverage established by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services National Coverage Determination 210.3.

(2) Approved by the FDA and included in the most recently published guidelines from t