Coverage requirement

(a) Coverage standard All health insurers—including a group health plan, a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage, and all applicable Federal health programs—shall provide full coverage, without cost-sharing, for annual low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) or other appropriate lung cancer screening technologies for eligible individuals described in section (3). (b) Prohibited barriers Coverage under this Act may not be subject to— (1) prior authorization; (2) step-therapy or other utilization controls; (3) frequency limits more restrictive than one screening annually; or (4) documentation requirements beyond those included in recent evidence-based clinical guidelines.