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Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe
Filed: 5/11/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 661
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 661 on page 7, by |
| 3 | | replacing lines 15 and 16 with the following:
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| 4 | | "hepatitis C virus screening and confirmatory testing when |
| 5 | | ordered by an individual's primary care physician or |
| 6 | | practitioner within the context of a primary care setting who |
| 7 | | meet either of the following conditions: |
| 8 | | (1) Adults at high risk for hepatitis C infection. |
| 9 | | Repeat screenings for high risk persons are covered |
| 10 | | annually only for persons who have had continued illicit |
| 11 | | injection drug use since the prior negative screening test. |
| 12 | | (2) Adults who are not high risk, but who were born on |
| 13 | | or after January 1, 1945 through December 31, 1965. A |
| 14 | | single, one-time screening test is covered for these |
| 15 | | individuals. |
| 16 | | As used in this Section, "high risk" is defined as persons |
| 17 | | with a current or past history of illicit injection drug use |