2010 Maine Code
TITLE 24: INSURANCE
Chapter 19: NONPROFIT HOSPITAL OR MEDICAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
24 §2332-B. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

§2332-B. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

1. Definitions. As used in this section, "HIV" and "antibody to HIV" have the same meanings as set out in Title 5, section 19201.

[ 1991, c. 3, §2 (NEW) .]

2. Prohibitions. No individual or group hospital, medical or health care service contract delivered or issued for delivery in this State, other than a contract that provides benefits for specific diseases or accidental injuries only, may provide more restrictive coverage for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, AIDS Related Complex, or ARC, HIV-related diseases or for related services, than for any other disease or sickness, or exclude coverage for AIDS, ARC or HIV-related diseases, except through an exclusion under which all diseases and sicknesses are treated equally.

[ 1991, c. 3, §2 (NEW) .]

3. Test results. No nonprofit hospital or medical services organization or nonprofit health care plan may request any person to reveal whether the person has obtained a test for the presence of antibodies to HIV or a test to measure the virus or to reveal the results of such tests taken prior to an application for coverage.

[ 1991, c. 3, §2 (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1989, c. 176, §1 (NEW). 1991, c. 3, §2 (RPR).