FIRST REGULAR SESSION
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES CURLS (Sponsor), McCLANAHAN AND BRANDOM (Co-sponsors).
2516L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 191, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the women's heart health program.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 191, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 191.425, to read as follows:
191.425. 1. Subject to appropriations, there is hereby established within the department of health and senior services the "Women's Heart Health Program" to provide heart disease risk screening to uninsured and underinsured women.
2. The following women shall be eligible for program services:
(1) Women between the ages of 40 and 64;
(2) Women who are receiving breast and cervical cancer screenings under the Missouri show me healthy women program;
(3) Women who are uninsured or whose insurance does not provide coverage for heart disease risk screenings; and
(4) Women with a gross family income at or below two hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level.
3. The department shall contract with health care providers who are currently providing services under the Missouri show me healthy women program, to provide screening services under the women's heart health program. Screening shall include, but not be limited to an exercise cardiac stress test, radionucleide stress test, stress echocardiography, and physiologic stress test. Any woman whose screening indicating an increased risk for heart disease shall receive appropriate follow-up health care services.
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