New Law Requires Hospitals to Inform Breast Cancer Patients of Breast Reconstruction Options

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — While breast reconstruction after a mastectomy is covered by insurers in New York, many poor, minority, and less educated women do not seek out the procedure. Now, NY Gov. David A. Paterson has signed into law a bill that is aimed at reversing this trend. “A disproportionate number of women who are at a socioeconomic disadvantage do not get breast …