2015 California Code
Insurance Code - INS
DIVISION 2 - CLASSES OF INSURANCE
PART 2 - LIFE AND DISABILITY INSURANCE
CHAPTER 1 - The Contract
ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions
Section 10123.17.
10123.17. Except for a preexisting condition, every self-insured employee welfare benefit plan in this state that offers group coverage for long-term care facility services or home-based care shall not exclude persons covered by the plan from receiving these benefits, if they are diagnosed as having any significant destruction of brain tissue with resultant loss of brain function, including, but not limited to, progressive, degenerative, and dementing illnesses, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer s disease, from the coverage offered for long-term care facility services or home-based care.
For purposes of this section, where a particular disease can be determined only with an autopsy, diagnosed means clinical diagnosis not dependent on pathological confirmation, but employing nationally accepted criteria.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1049, Sec. 3.)
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