ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 3546

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  MARCH 20, 2025

      The Assembly Health Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 3546.

      This bill requires hospital, medical, and health service corporations, commercial individual, small employer, and larger group insurers, health maintenance organizations, and the State Health Benefits Program to provide coverage for medically necessary expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer for symptomatic women or women at risk of ovarian cancer, which coverage is to include, but is not limited to, an annual pelvic examination, an ultrasound, and blood testing for cancer markers.