Delaware Code Title 18. Insurance Code § 3346. Colorectal cancer screening

(a) Every individual health, sickness or accident insurance policy contract or certificate which is delivered or issued for delivery in this State by any health insurer, health service corporation or health maintenance organization shall provide coverage for colorectal cancer screening under any such policy, contract or plan delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this State on or after January 1, 2001. The terms “health, sickness or accident insurance policy contract or certificate” shall not include, unless specifically provided in the policy, the following types of insurance or combination thereof: accident only, fixed or hospital confinement indemnity, limited benefit, credit, vision, specified disease, Medicare supplement, Champus supplement, long-term care, disability income workers compensation or automobile medical payment.

(b) Colorectal cancer screening covered by this section shall include:

screening with an annual fecal occult blood test, flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy, or in appropriate circumstances radiologic imaging or other screening modalities, shall be provided as determined by the Secretary of Health and Social Services of this State after consideration of recommendations of the Delaware Cancer Consortium and the most recently published recommendations established by the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Cancer Society, the United States Preventive Task Force Services for the ages, family histories and frequencies referenced in such recommendations and deemed appropriate by the attending physician.