Elaine Schattner www.forbes.com Recently, the Governor of Michigan signed into law a requirement that radiologists inform women if their mammogram reveals dense breasts. The law will take effect on June 1, 2015. With this act, Michigan became the 21st state to enact legislation on mandatory reporting of breast density found in breast cancer screening. The […]
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Breast Density Inform Inconsistency Delivers Confusion
July 17, 2014 This first appeared in the July 2014 issue of DOTmed HealthCare Business News We have reached the tipping point. We have reached the tipping point. By population, over fifty percent of American women now live in states that require breast density information be provided to them in the letter they receive after […]
Minnesota and Rhode Island enact breast density laws
May 27, 2014 by Loren Bonner , DOTmed News Online Editor This week, Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed Rhode Island’s breast density inform bill into law, and late last week, Gov. Mark Dayton did the same for Minnesota women. Breast density laws require physicians to inform women if they have dense breasts along with the possible […]
Gov. Jan Brewer signs Breast Density Law
April 22, 2014 by Loren Bonner , DOTmed News Online Editor Arizona became the fifteenth state to require physicians to inform women if they have dense breasts along with the possible risks that can be present. After legislation was introduced at the request of a diagnostic radiologist in Arizona, and went through the procedural votes […]