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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 56
Sponsored by Senator HAYDEN (at the request of Ben West, BSN, MSN, RN) (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Makes OHP and health insurance cover more services for heart issues. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 72.6).
Requires the state medical assistance program and health insurance policies and certificates to
cover computerized tomography coronary calcium score scans.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to cardiac computerized tomography coronary calcium score scans.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 414.
SECTION 2.The health services to be provided in medical assistance under ORS 414.065
must include computerized tomography coronary calcium score scans with or without con-
trast when prescribed by a licensed or certified health professional.
SECTION 3.Section 4 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of the Insurance Code.
SECTION 4.(1) A policy or certificate of health insurance offered in this state that re-
imburses the cost of laboratory services must reimburse the cost of computerized
tomography coronary calcium score scans with or without contrast, when prescribed by a
licensed or certified health professional.
(2) This section is exempt from ORS 743A.001.
SECTION 5. Section 4 of this 2025 Act applies to policies and certificates of health in-
surance issued, renewed or extended on or after January 1, 2026.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 3023