Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 3346 – Colorectal cancer screening
(a) Every individual health, sickness or accident insurance policy contract or certificate which is delivered or issued for delivery in this State by any health insurer, health service corporation or health maintenance organization shall provide coverage for colorectal cancer screening under any such policy, contract or plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this State on or after January 1, 2001. The terms “health, sickness or accident insurance policy contract or certificate” shall not include, unless specifically provided in the policy, the following types of insurance or combination thereof: accident only, fixed or hospital confinement indemnity, limited benefit, credit, vision, specified disease, Medicare supplement, Champus supplement, long-term care, disability income workers compensation or automobile medical payment.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 3346
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) Colorectal cancer screening covered by this section shall include:
(1) For persons 50 years of age or older screening with an annual fecal occult blood test, flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy, or in appropriate circumstances radiologic imaging or other screening modalities, shall be provided as determined by the Secretary of Health and Social Services of this State after consideration of recommendations of the Delaware Cancer Consortium and the most recently published recommendations established by the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Cancer Society, the United States Preventive Task Force Services, for the ages, family histories and frequencies referenced in such recommendations and deemed appropriate by the attending physician.
(2) For persons who are deemed at high risk for colon cancer because of:
a. Family history of familial adenomatous polyposis;
b. Family history of hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer;
c. Chronic inflammatory bowel disease;
d. Family history of breast, ovarian, endometrial or colon cancer or polyps; or
e. A background, ethnicity or lifestyle such that the health-care provider treating the participant or beneficiary believes that person is at elevated risk;
screening with an annual fecal occult blood test, flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy, or in appropriate circumstances radiologic imaging or other screening modalities, shall be provided as determined by the Secretary of Health and Social Services of this State after consideration of recommendations of the Delaware Cancer Consortium and the most recently published recommendations established by the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Cancer Society, the United States Preventive Task Force Services for the ages, family histories and frequencies referenced in such recommendations and deemed appropriate by the attending physician.
(3) For all persons covered pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) or (b)(2) of this section, colorectal cancer screening shall include the use of anesthetic agents, including general anesthesia, in connection with colonoscopies and endoscopies performed in accordance with generally-accepted standards of medical practice and all applicable patient safety laws and regulations, if the use of such anesthetic agents is medically necessary in the judgment of the treating physician.
72 Del. Laws, c. 416, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 338, §§ ?1, 2; 76 Del. Laws, c. 406, § ?1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 310, § 1;