Does the state require private insurers to cover bone density screening for certain high-risk groups?
States receive a "meets policy" if they require private insurers to cover bone density screening for people in all five high-risk categories. States receive a "limited policy" if they require private insurers to cover bone density screening for any three of the five categories. States receive a "weak policy" if they only require insurers to offer coverage of bone density screenings as a benefit in employer-sponsored insurance plans, but have not required that it be a mandated benefit in all of these insurance plans. States with no mandated bone density screening coverage requirements receive a "no policy."
Data Source: Osteoporosis Screening, 2006.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, "State Mandated Benefits: Osteoporosis Screening, 2006," available at http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparetable.jsp?cat=10&ind=491, accessed March 30, 3007.