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2021 Georgia Code
Title 33 - Insurance
Chapter 24 - Insurance Generally
Article 3 - Breast Cancer Patient Care
§ 33-24-71. Legislative Findings
Universal Citation: GA Code § 33-24-71 (2021)
The General Assembly finds and declares that:
- 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;
- There is sufficient scientific data to question the safety and appropriateness of such treatment of breast cancer patients; and
- 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.
(Code 1981, §33-24-71, enacted by Ga. L. 1999, p. 319, § 1.)
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