Access to Scalp Cooling Therapy Act of 2022

United States117th CongressHR-7322House of Representatives
Updated: May 10, 2022

Summary

Access to Scalp Cooling Therapy Act of 2022 This bill requires health insurance plans (including public health insurance programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program) to provide coverage for therapeutic devices used to cool the scalp of an individual to prevent or reduce hair loss during chemotherapy (e.g., cooling caps, hypothermia caps, and cold caps).

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Timeline

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  4. Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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