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Article: U.S. Government Approves Six State Plans To Insure Women With Breast Or Cervical Cancer.(United States, Medicaid health insurance)(Brief Article)
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- Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA
- Article date:
- June 24, 2001
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2001 JUN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Tommy G. Thompson has approved six new states' applications for a new federal program that allows them to offer Medicaid benefits to uninsured women who are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer through a federal screening program.
Utah, Idaho, South Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, and Montana are the most recent states to take advantage of the federal Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act (BCCPT) that was signed into law in October 2000. Rhode Island, New Hampshire, West Virginia, and Maryland were the first four states to take advantage of this new ...