Pennsylvania Act 2020-44 — INSURANCE COMPANY LAW OF 1921 - MASTECTOMY AND BREAST CANCER RECONSTRUCTION

Act text

Session of 2020

No. 2020-44

HB 1457

AN ACT

Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), entitled "An act relating to insurance; amending, revising, and consolidating the law providing for the incorporation of insurance companies, and the regulation, supervision, and protection of home and foreign insurance companies, Lloyds associations, reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and fire insurance rating bureaus, and the regulation and supervision of insurance carried by such companies, associations, and exchanges, including insurance carried by the State Workmen's Insurance Fund; providing penalties; and repealing existing laws," in casualty insurance, further providing for mastectomy and breast cancer reconstruction.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 633(d)(4) of the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, is amended to read:

Section 633. Mastectomy and Breast Cancer Reconstruction.--* * *

(d) * * *

(4) The term "prosthetic devices" when used in this section means the use of initial and subsequent artificial devices , including custom artificial devices, to replace the removed breast or portions thereof pursuant to an order of the patient's physician.

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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

APPROVED--The 1st day of July, A.D. 2020.

TOM WOLF