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Did you know that in the State of Florida health insurance plans are not required to cover the costs of annual digital rectal and PSA blood tests to screen for prostate cancer? While some health insurance companies cover these tests anyway, there are others that don’t.

Florida is ranked # 2 in our nation for incidence of prostate cancer diagnosis and death. In 2004 it is estimated that over 17,000 Florida men were diagnosed with prostate cancer and over 2,200 men of this State died from prostate cancer. Clearly this is a major health concern for our citizens.

Florida Prostate Cancer Network is partnering with the National Prostate Cancer Coalition to ask for your support of legislation requiring health benefit plans to offer coverage for annual prostate cancer screenings for men who are forty years of age or older. The good news about prostate cancer is that it is almost always curable when detected early. Many states have already passed this important legislation and as a State where prostate cancer is an epidemic, we must pass it as well.

Please contact your local legislators and ask them to support a bill making it mandatory that health insurance cover the costs of these life-saving annual screenings!