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Ch. 282
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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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CHAPTER 282
(Senate Bill 516)
AN ACT concerning
Health Insurance - Benefits Coverage for In Vitro Fertilization
FOR the purpose of altering the circumstances under which certain policies,
contracts, and certificates that provide pregnancy related benefits may not
exclude benefits for certain expenses arising from certain in vitro fertilization
procedures; prohibiting the Maryland Health Care Commission from excluding
certain coverage for certain in vitro fertilization procedures from the
Comprehensive Standard-Health Benefit Plan under small group market health
insurance prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and
health maintenance organizations from excluding certain benefits for in vitro
fertilization under certain circumstances; providing that the requirement that
the patient and the patient's spouse have a history of infertility of a certain
duration to be eligible for certain in vitro fertilization health insurance benefits
does not apply if the infertility is associated with abnormal male factors
contributing to the infertility; requiring that certain benefits be provided to
certain extents; decreasing the duration of time for which certain individuals
must have a history of infertility in order to be eligible for certain in vitro
fertilization health insurance benefits; authorizing certain insurers, nonprofit
health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to limit coverage for
certain in vitro fertilization benefits; providing for an exclusion from certain
required coverage under certain circumstances; providing for the application of
this Act; and generally relating to coverage of benefits for in vitro fertilization
under health-insurance.
BY adding to
Article - Health — General
Section 19-706(nn)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Insurance
Section 15-810 and 15-1207
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Volume and 1999 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
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