EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT (ERISA)

Bills and resolutions

Diseases: require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to cover oral cancer drugs on terms no less favorable than coverage provided for intravenously administered anticancer medications (see H.R. 2746), H5883 [1AU]

Income: require a lifetime income disclosure (see S. 267), S543 [3FE] (see H.R. 677), H723 [11FE]

Insurance: cover screening mammography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for women over 40 and for women at high risk for breast cancer if diagnostic mammography is covered (see H.R. 1784), H3108 [5MY]

———ensure health care coverage value and transparency for dental benefits under group health plans (see H.R. 1809), H3159 [10MY]

———provide parity under group health plans and insurance coverage in the provision of benefits for prosthetics and custom orthotics and benefits for other medical and surgical services (see S. 773), S2348 [8AP]

———provide protection for company-provided retiree health benefits (see H.R. 1322), H2265 [1AP]

———require health plans to cover treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease (see S. 1045), S3224 [23MY] (see H.R. 1955), H3408 [24MY]

Investments: modify definition of fiduciary to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans (see S. 1232), S3924 [20JN]

Pensions: ensure pension plans can use swaps to hedge risks (see H.R. 3045), H6455 [23SE]

———make technical modifications relative to the Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act and the Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act (see H.R. 2656), H5579 [26JY]

———reduce administrative burdens and encourage retirement plan formation and retention (see H.R. 3561), H8135 [5DE]

Small business: improve access and choice relative to employee health care (see H.R. 1050), H1768 [11MR]