{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-33-24-71","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 33-24-71","heading":"Legislative findings.","body":"The General Assembly finds and declares that:\n(1) Whereas, until recently health care insurers covered costs of hospital stays of a patient who had undergone a mastectomy or lymph node dissection until that patient was discharged by a physician. Now some insurers are making mastectomies and lymph node dissections an outpatient procedure and refusing to pay for any hospital inpatient care following the procedure;\n(2) There is sufficient scientific data to question the safety and appropriateness of such treatment of breast cancer patients; and\n(3) The length of postmastectomy or postlymph node dissection inpatient stay should be a clinical decision made by a physician in agreement with the patient based on the unique characteristics of the patient and the surgery involved.","path":["TITLE 33 Insurance","CHAPTER 24 Insurance Generally","Article 3 Breast Cancer Patient Care"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.33.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"dc1f25d5b912315c6bcc2ac092ce08b2e4933591de830fa9fa87a6cd33faefc3","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-33-24-70","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-33-24-72"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}