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House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: December 14, 2012 10:01 AM
From: Representative Anthony M. DeLuca
To: All House members
Subject: Cancer Clinical Trials (HB 508 of 2011)
 
In the near future, I will be reintroducing HB 508 of 2011-2012; legislation that will require insurance companies to provide coverage for direct treatment patient costs received during a cancer clinical trial. This bill was reported out of Committee unanimously last Session.

Insurance companies generally pay for routine care for cancer patients. However, if a patient enters into a clinical trial – this routine care payment may be denied. According to one survey conducted by the American Cancer Society, 60 percent of patients reported concerns over having their insurance coverage denied, as a major reason for not signing up to take part in a clinical trial.

It is time we do something about this and help cancer patients who agree to go through cancer clinical trials. Clinical trials are vital to providing advanced treatments and saving the lives of Pennsylvanians, and will hopefully produce the cure for cancer that we so vitally need.

Introduced as HB230