Coverage for Prostate and Cervical Cancer

Detection.

(a)Except for a fraternal benefit society, a health care insurer that offers, issues for delivery, delivers, or renews in Guam, a health care insurance plan, shall provide coverage for the costs of prostate cancer screening tests as required under the schedule described in Subsection

(b)of this Section, and shall provide coverage for the costs of cervical cancer screening tests as required under the schedule described in Subsection

(c)of this Section. The coverage required by this Section is subject to standard policy provisions applicable to other benefits, including deductible or copayment provisions.

(b)The minimum coverage required under Subsection

(a)of this Section for prostate cancer screening includes an annual prostate cancer screening test, by digital rectal examination, for a person who is forty

(40)or more years of age.

(c)The minimum coverage required under Subsection

(a)of this Section for cervical cancer screening is an annual pap COL6/24/2021 CH. 18 THE CONTRACT OF INSURANCE smear cancer screening test for a person who is twenty-one

(21)or more years of age.

(d)The coverage described by this Section shall be effective in the event that the United States Preventive Services Task Force, its recommendations, or the provisions of the Affordable Care Act or its successor acts, should cease to require such coverage.