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Under Colorado's mammography mandate, at what age does the annual breast cancer screening benefit attach for covered persons?
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Why D is correct
C.R.S. § 10-16-104(18)(b.5) requires Colorado health coverage to include annual breast cancer screening for covered persons age 40 OR OLDER, with family history or elevated lifetime risk serving as additional triggers. Recommended follow-up diagnostic or supplemental imaging must be provided without cost-sharing. Producers should not confuse this with the prostate screening trigger age of 50, which governs a different mandate.
Why the other options are wrong
- A) Age 45 is not the statutory trigger; the Colorado mammography mandate begins at age 40 or older.
- B) Age 50 is the prostate screening threshold under C.R.S. § 10-16-104(10), not the mammography threshold.
- C) Age 65 is a Medicare eligibility concept, not the age at which Colorado's mammography mandate attaches.
Memory hook
Mammograms start at 40 — forty before fifty for breasts, fifty for prostate.