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2010 Georgia Code

TITLE 33 - INSURANCE

CHAPTER 24 - INSURANCE GENERALLY
ARTICLE 3 - BREAST CANCER PATIENT CARE
§ 33-24-71 - Legislative findings

O.C.G.A. 33-24-71 (2010)
33-24-71. Legislative findings.


The General Assembly finds and declares that:

(1) Whereas, until recently health care insurers covered costs of hospital stays of a patient who had undergone a mastectomy or lymph node dissection until that patient was discharged by a physician. Now some insurers are making mastectomies and lymph node dissections an outpatient procedure and refusing to pay for any hospital inpatient care following the procedure;

(2) There is sufficient scientific data to question the safety and appropriateness of such treatment of breast cancer patients; and

(3) The length of postmastectomy or postlymph node dissection inpatient stay should be a clinical decision made by a physician in agreement with the patient based on the unique characteristics of the patient and the surgery involved.