Georgia § 33-24-71 Legislative findings

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§ 33-24-71 — Legislative findings

Georgia § 33-24-71

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O.C.G.A. § 33-24-71 (2026).

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The General Assembly finds and declares that:

(1)Whereas, until recently health care insurers covered costs of hospital stays of a patient who had undergone a mastectomy or lymph node dissection until that patient was discharged by a physician. Now some insurers are making mastectomies and lymph node dissections an outpatient procedure and refusing to pay for any hospital inpatient care following the procedure;

(2)There is sufficient scientific data to question the safety and appropriateness of such treatment of breast cancer patients; and (3) The length of postmastectomy or postlymph node dissection inpatient stay should be a clinical decision made by a physician in agreement with the patient based on the unique characteristics of the patient and the surgery involved.

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The General Assembly finds and declares that: (1) Whereas, until recently health care insurers covered costs of hospital stays of a patient who had undergone a mastectomy or lymph node dissection until that patient was discharged by a physician. Now some insurers are making mastectomies and lymph node dissections an outpatient procedure and refusing to pay for any hospital inpatient care following the procedure; (2) There is sufficient scientific data to question the safety and appropriateness of such treatment of breast cancer patients; and (3) The length of postmastectomy or postlymph node dissection inpatient stay should be a clinical decision made by a physician in agreement with the patient based on the unique characteristics of the patient and the surgery involved.