State StatuteIllinois: 215 ILCS 5/356z.43

Summary

Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act must provide coverage for medically necessary comprehensive cancer testing and testing of blood or constitutional tissue for cancer predisposition testing as determined by a physician. Comprehensive cancer testing includes, but is not limited to, the following forms of testing: (1) targeted cancer gene panels; (2) whole-exome genome testing; (3) whole genome testing; (4) RNA sequencing; and (5) tumor mutation burden.