Cancer screenings

House committee members unanimously approved measures designed to eliminate patients' co-pays for prostate cancer and necessary follow-up breast cancer screenings.

Last week, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., celebrated the passage of a bipartisan piece of legislation to ensure emerging cancer blood tests are covered by Medicare. The Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection, MCED, Screening Coverage Act is legislation sponsored by Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, and named in honor of Sewell’s mother who passed … Continued

The bill would increase seniors’ timely access to multi-cancer early detection technology by creating a pathway to Medicare coverage.

New MCED screenings are emerging which hold the potential to detect dozens of forms of cancer with a simple blood test.