Session: Hereditary cancer and your legal rights

Speakers: Anya Prince, Esq.

This 90-minute concurrent session will focus on the legal rights of patients and consumers with regards to health care, employment, and insurance issues. Ms. Prince will discuss:

• insurance coverage of preventive services
• legal protections covered by GINA
• other protections against genetic discrimination in health and employment
• HIPAA and other protections
• understanding the new Health Care Reform laws
• Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act and your legal rights for reconstruction and post-breast surgery care
• how to approach insurance denials and appeals
• examples of GINA cases/situations
  

This session is appropriate for:

• people with a BRCA mutation or hereditary cancer in the family
• cancer survivors and previvors
• spouses, partners, and significant others of people with a BRCA mutation or hereditary
  cancer in the family
• patient advocates, support group facilitators, and people who work with survivors, people
  with a BRCA mutation, and people with hereditary cancer in the family
• health care providers who provide care to survivors, people with a BRCA mutation, and
  people with hereditary cancer in the family
• social workers/mental health care professionals who treat survivors, people
  with a BRCA mutation, and people with hereditary cancer in the family

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