376.818. Eligibility for Medicaid may not be considered by insurers.
Eligibility for Medicaid may not be considered by insurers.
376.818. No individual or group insurance policy providing coverage onan expense-incurred basis, no individual or group service or indemnitycontract issued by a not-for-profit health services corporation, no healthmaintenance organization nor any self-insured group health benefit plan of anytype or description shall be offered, issued or renewed in this state by anyinsurer on or after July 1, 1994, if any insurer, including a group healthplan, as defined in section 607(1) of the federal Employee Retirement IncomeSecurity Act of 1974, takes into account that an individual is eligible for oris provided medical assistance under Medicaid (Title XIX) when enrolling anindividual or in making payment for benefits to the individual or on theindividual's behalf.
(L. 1994 H.B. 1491 & 1134 merged with S.B. 508)Effective 7-1-94