Requires health insurers to provide coverage for long term medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related pathogens.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for long term medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related pathogens; provides for taxpayer gifts for tick borne illness research, detection and education; establishes the tick borne illness research, detection and education fund.
Providing for continuing education in Lyme disease and related tick-borne diseases for health care professionals.
Health Insurance - Lyme Disease and Related Tick-Borne Illnesses - Long-Term Antibiotic Treatment
Health Insurance - Lyme Disease and Related Tick-Borne Illnesses - Long-Term Antibiotic Treatment
TICK-BORNE DISEASE WARNING
Designating the month of May 2025 as "Lyme Disease and Tick-Borne Illness Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Require tick-related disease reporting to Department of Health
Providing for patient access to diagnostics and treatments for Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses; and requiring health care policies to provide certain coverage.
Authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants for purposes of preventing transmission of tick-borne diseases on public lands frequented by humans; requires the commissioner to submit an annual report on the performance of programs funded by such grants.